Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis?
In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian variant of the so-called Asian enigma presents many puzzles, one of the puzzles pertains to agricultur...
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| author | Headey, Derek D. Chiu, Alice Kadiyala, Suneetha |
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| description | In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian variant of the so-called Asian enigma presents many puzzles, one of the puzzles pertains to agriculture's role. In this paper we reassess agriculture's role in the Indian enigma by exploring two key pathways, an income-consumption pathway and an employment-time use pathway, linking agricultural conditions to nutrition outcomes. On the income-consumption front, we assess whether rising incomes are improving diets and how agriculture and income growth are influencing the Indian diet. In terms of time use, we explore whether agricultural livelihoods hinder childcare practices and the health status of mothers. We conclude with a brief overview of nonagricultural constraints to improved nutrition and some analysis of the implications of our findings for agricultural policies in India. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1550032025-11-06T07:23:02Z Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? Headey, Derek D. Chiu, Alice Kadiyala, Suneetha undernutrition agricultural growth rural development time use patterns In recent decades India has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world, yet its progress against both child and adult undernutrition has been sluggish at best. While this Indian variant of the so-called Asian enigma presents many puzzles, one of the puzzles pertains to agriculture's role. In this paper we reassess agriculture's role in the Indian enigma by exploring two key pathways, an income-consumption pathway and an employment-time use pathway, linking agricultural conditions to nutrition outcomes. On the income-consumption front, we assess whether rising incomes are improving diets and how agriculture and income growth are influencing the Indian diet. In terms of time use, we explore whether agricultural livelihoods hinder childcare practices and the health status of mothers. We conclude with a brief overview of nonagricultural constraints to improved nutrition and some analysis of the implications of our findings for agricultural policies in India. 2011 2024-10-01T14:05:29Z 2024-10-01T14:05:29Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155003 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Headey, Derek D.; Chiu, Alice; Kadiyala, Suneetha. 2011. Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? IFPRI Discussion Paper 1085. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155003 |
| spellingShingle | undernutrition agricultural growth rural development time use patterns Headey, Derek D. Chiu, Alice Kadiyala, Suneetha Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? |
| title | Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? |
| title_full | Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? |
| title_short | Agriculture's role in the Indian enigma: Help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis? |
| title_sort | agriculture s role in the indian enigma help or hindrance to the undernutrition crisis |
| topic | undernutrition agricultural growth rural development time use patterns |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155003 |
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