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  1. Agriculture and nutrition in India: Mapping evidence to pathways by Kadiyala, Suneetha, Harris, Jody, Headey, Derek D., Yosef, Sivan, Gillespie, Stuart

    Published 2014
    “…In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. …”
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  2. An overview of the nutrition knowledge systems and networks in India by Anuradha, T., Kunaratnam, Yaso, McGrath, Louise

    Published 2013
    “…One of the objectives of POSHAN is to facilitate the availability of, access to, and use of knowledge to inform program and policy decisions among stakeholders working in nutrition in India. To understand how POSHAN can best support and strengthen knowledge mobilization in nutrition, a team from POSHAN reviewed the reach, use, and role of existing knowledge systems and knowledge networks (Exhibit 1) in India.…”
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  3. Demand and supply of cereals in India: 2010-2025 by Ganesh-Kumar, Anand, Mehta, Rajesh, Pullabhotla, Hemant, Prasad, Sanjay K., Ganguly, Kavery, Gulati, Ashok

    Published 2012
    “…This paper attempts to project the future supply and demand up to the year 2025 for rice and wheat, the two main cereals cultivated and consumed in India. A review of studies that forecast the supply and demand of Indian agriculture commodities revealed three important limitations of such studies: (a) The forecasts are generally overestimated (in the ex post situation); (b) the methodology is not clearly outlined; (c) ex-ante validation of the forecast have not been carried out. …”
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  4. The quiet revolution in India's food supply chains by Reardon, Thomas, Minten, Bart

    Published 2011
    “…There has been a rapid transformation of food supply chains in India over the past two decades. Modern retail sales are growing at 49 percent per year and quickly penetrating urban food markets and even rural markets. …”
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  5. Government spending, growth and poverty in rural India by Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, Peter B. R., Thorat, Sukhadeo

    Published 2000
    “…Using state‐level data for 1970–93, a simultaneous equation model was developed to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on ruralpoverty and productivity growth in India. The results show that in order to reduce rural poverty, the Indian government should give highest priority to additionalinvestments in ruralroads and agriculturalresearch. …”
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