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October 4, 2019
Locally-Grown Fruits and Vegetables Can Improve Diets of Rural Women in India
Malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiency, is especially acute among women in India. Locally-grown produce may hold the key to improving diets.
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Biofortification
July 26, 2019
Biofortified Staples May Hold the Key to India’s Rural Malnutrition
“Hidden hunger,” or micronutrient deficiency, affects a large section of the Indian population, as it does in many developing countries. Biofortified staples can help improve diets.
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Food Systems for Healthier Diets
March 19, 2019
From Food Security to Nutrition Security in India: A Food Systems Perspective
Despite historically high levels of food production in India, undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies persist. At present, 22.5 percent of adults
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Biofortification
July 24, 2018
Consuming Iron-Biofortified Pearl Millet Improves Indian Adolescents’ Cognitive Outcomes
A study recently published in the Journal of Nutrition provides evidence biofortified high-iron pearl millet can stem the deleterious ripple effect
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Food Systems for Healthier Diets
December 27, 2017
Book Release: Pulses for Nutrition in India: Changing Pattern from Farm to Fork
A good monsoon led to a rise in sowing and production of pulses in 2017, resulting in prices falling almost
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Resources
August 16, 2016
Stories of change in nutrition: country briefs available
The Stories of Change in Nutrition initiative, funded by CIFF and DFID through Transform Nutrition, fills a key gap in
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2016
August 10, 2016
Using qualitative methods to study value chains for nutrition in rural India
This month on the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange, we speak to Sarah Kehoe (Senior Research Fellow at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology
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Events
April 25, 2016
A4NH co-hosts seminar on value chains for nutrition in India
This week, A4NH is joining together with IFPRI's Gender Task Force to host a seminar on Value Chains for Nutrition in Rural
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Flagships
March 25, 2016
Improving Nutrition in India: Taking Flight with WINGS
All over the world, people are paying attention to the transformative role of women’s groups. Women, when organized in groups,
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