The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a crit...

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Main Authors:	Dizon, Felipe, Josephson, Anna, Raju, Dhushyanth
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	FOOD AGRICULTURE NUTRITION MALNUTRITION FOOD PRICES TRANSFERS CLIMATE CHANGE ANIMAL FARMING HOME GARDENS BIOFORTIFICATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/945551551887112580/The-Nutrition-Sensitivity-of-Food-and-Agriculture-in-South-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31360

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spelling	okr-10986-313602022-09-20T00:13:58Z The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia Dizon, Felipe Josephson, Anna Raju, Dhushyanth FOOD AGRICULTURE NUTRITION MALNUTRITION FOOD PRICES TRANSFERS CLIMATE CHANGE ANIMAL FARMING HOME GARDENS BIOFORTIFICATION Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have yet to be well identified. These include the cultivation of home gardens, animal farming, and use of biofortification and post-harvest fortification. All these efforts will be futile, however, without parallel efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change. 2019-03-07T21:49:18Z 2019-03-07T21:49:18Z 2019-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/945551551887112580/The-Nutrition-Sensitivity-of-Food-and-Agriculture-in-South-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31360 English Policy Research Working Paper;No 8766 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia South Asia
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spellingShingle	FOOD AGRICULTURE NUTRITION MALNUTRITION FOOD PRICES TRANSFERS CLIMATE CHANGE ANIMAL FARMING HOME GARDENS BIOFORTIFICATION Dizon, Felipe Josephson, Anna Raju, Dhushyanth The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
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description	Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have yet to be well identified. These include the cultivation of home gardens, animal farming, and use of biofortification and post-harvest fortification. All these efforts will be futile, however, without parallel efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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author	Dizon, Felipe Josephson, Anna Raju, Dhushyanth
author_facet	Dizon, Felipe Josephson, Anna Raju, Dhushyanth
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title	The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
title_short	The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
title_full	The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
title_fullStr	The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
title_full_unstemmed	The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/945551551887112580/The-Nutrition-Sensitivity-of-Food-and-Agriculture-in-South-Asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31360
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