Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways
In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensivel...
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| author | Kadiyala, Suneetha Harris, Jody Headey, Derek D. Yosef, Sivan Gillespie, Stuart |
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| description | In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture–nutrition pathways in India and assesses both the quality and coverage of the existing literature. We present a conceptual framework delineating six key pathways between agriculture and nutrition. Three pathways pertain to the nutritional impacts of farm production, farm incomes, and food prices. The other three pertain to agriculture–gender linkages. After an extensive search, we found 78 research papers that provided evidence to populate these pathways. The literature suggests that Indian agriculture has a range of important influences on nutrition. Agriculture seems to influence diets even when controlling for income, and relative food prices could partly explain observed dietary changes in recent decades. The evidence on agriculture–gender linkages to nutrition is relatively weak. Sizeable knowledge gaps remain. The root causes of these gaps include an interdisciplinary disconnect between nutrition and economics/agriculture, a related problem of inadequate survey data, and limited policy‐driven experimentation. Closing these gaps is essential to strengthening the agriculture sector's contribution to reducing undernutrition. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1509882025-02-24T06:48:42Z Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways Kadiyala, Suneetha Harris, Jody Headey, Derek D. Yosef, Sivan Gillespie, Stuart frameworks undernutrition food policies cartography agriculture malnutrition nutrition In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture–nutrition pathways in India and assesses both the quality and coverage of the existing literature. We present a conceptual framework delineating six key pathways between agriculture and nutrition. Three pathways pertain to the nutritional impacts of farm production, farm incomes, and food prices. The other three pertain to agriculture–gender linkages. After an extensive search, we found 78 research papers that provided evidence to populate these pathways. The literature suggests that Indian agriculture has a range of important influences on nutrition. Agriculture seems to influence diets even when controlling for income, and relative food prices could partly explain observed dietary changes in recent decades. The evidence on agriculture–gender linkages to nutrition is relatively weak. Sizeable knowledge gaps remain. The root causes of these gaps include an interdisciplinary disconnect between nutrition and economics/agriculture, a related problem of inadequate survey data, and limited policy‐driven experimentation. Closing these gaps is essential to strengthening the agriculture sector's contribution to reducing undernutrition. 2014 2024-08-01T02:54:41Z 2024-08-01T02:54:41Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150988 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153884 Limited Access Wiley Kadiyala, Suneetha; Harris, Jody; Headey, Derek D.; Yosef, Sivan; and Gillespie, Stuart. 2014. Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1331(December 2014): 43-56. Issue on Paths of Convergence for Agriculture, Health, and Wealth. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12477 |
| spellingShingle | frameworks undernutrition food policies cartography agriculture malnutrition nutrition Kadiyala, Suneetha Harris, Jody Headey, Derek D. Yosef, Sivan Gillespie, Stuart Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways |
| title | Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways |
| title_full | Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways |
| title_short | Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways |
| title_sort | agriculture and nutrition in india mapping evidence to pathways |
| topic | frameworks undernutrition food policies cartography agriculture malnutrition nutrition |
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