Data on malnutrition in India indicate that the scale of malnutrition is unprecedented in numbers, variable in form and widespread. No state or no district in India is immune from the challenge of malnutrition, be it stunting, wasting, anemia, low birthweight, or overweight, obesity and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases. For tackling the challenge of malnutrition and >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
Stepping up to India’s Nutrition Challenge: The Critical Role of District Administrators
With POSHAN Abhiyaan (PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment), earlier called the National Nutrition Mission, India has taken a major step in the direction of holistically addressing the complex and multidimensional problem of malnutrition. To achieve the goal of malnutrition-free India by 2022, concerted efforts are being carried out at the district-level, because the battle >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
India’s child nutrition program shows strides in utilization, but fewer gains in high malnutrition states
Expansion and utilization of one of India’s largest government-run community-based nutrition programs increased significantly between 2006 and 2016, especially among historically disadvantaged castes and tribes. But, women with low education and the poorest households are relatively more excluded from accessing program benefits. Among states too, while overall utilization has improved, high malnutrition states are relatively >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
Abstract Digest on Maternal and Child Nutrition Research – Issue 26
We are delighted to present to you the first issue of Abstract Digest for this year. This issue has two important LANCET Commission Reports. The EAT–Lancet Commission is the first of a series of initiatives on nutrition, led by The Lancet in 2019, followed by the Commission on the Global Syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and >> Read more Source: POSHAN: Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India
Healthy Diets to Combat Malnutrition and Climate Change: Shenggen Fan
Shenggen Fan The global food system faces major challenges and trends related to rapid urbanisation, changing diets, climate change, political uncertainties, and anti-globalization sentiments. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that, in addition to addressing multiple burdens of malnutrition, there is an increasing need to seek an environmentally sustainable food system in […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
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