Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned?

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Main author: Gillespie, Stuart
Other authors: Poole, Nigel
van den Bold, Mara
Bhavani, R. V.
Dangour, Alan D.
Shetty, Prakash
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description Despite significant improvements over recent decades, rates of undernutrition remain high in South Asia, with adverse impacts on morbidity and mortality. Overweight/obesity, among children and adults, is now an additional and major public health concern. While agriculture has the potential to improve nutrition through several pathways, this potential is currently not being realised in the region. The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research consortium (2012–2018) set out to improve understanding about how agriculture and related food policies and programs in South Asia (specifically in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan) can be better conceptualised and implemented in order to enhance impacts on nutrition outcomes, especially those of young children and adolescent girls. This paper provides a snapshot of the agriculture-nutrition nexus in the region, outlines the pathways through which agriculture can influence nutrition outcomes, elaborates on the objectives of the LANSA research consortium within this context, and highlights the core findings of the six papers that form the body of this Special Issue. The paper ends with five key lessons that have emerged from this research, during this decade.
format Journal Article
author Gillespie, Stuart
author_facet Gillespie, Stuart
Poole, Nigel
van den Bold, Mara
Bhavani, R. V.
Dangour, Alan D.
Shetty, Prakash
authorStr Gillespie, Stuart
author_letter Gillespie, Stuart
author2 Poole, Nigel
van den Bold, Mara
Bhavani, R. V.
Dangour, Alan D.
Shetty, Prakash
author2Str Poole, Nigel
van den Bold, Mara
Bhavani, R. V.
Dangour, Alan D.
Shetty, Prakash
title Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned?
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30079/

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