Strengthening the role of agriculture for a nutrition secure India: Nutrition insecurity in India

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dc.creatorKadiyala, Suneetha
dc.creatorJoshi, Pramod Kumar
dc.creatorDev, S. Mahendra
dc.creatorKumar, T. Nanda
dc.creatorVyas, Vijay
dc.date2011
dc.date2024-10-01T14:05:01Z
dc.date2024-10-01T14:05:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:00:16Z
dc.descriptionAlmost one in two Indian children is stunted and 40 percent are underweight. One-third of all Indian women are underweight. Rates of micronutrient deficiencies are extremely high, with almost 80 percent of children and 56 percent of women being anemic (see Figure 1). Countries such as China, Thailand, and Brazil have taken bold actions to successfully accelerate reductions in undernutrition and are on track to reach the first Millennium Development Goal on target, by the year 2015. But India will do so only in 2043 with its present pace of actions. In the meantime, undernutrition continues to exert a physical, cognitive, and economic toll, costing India as much as 3 percent of its GDP per year. The Copenhagen Consensus 2008 lists combating micronutrient undernutrition as the best development investment, with the rate of return in terms of improved health, reduced deaths, and increased income opportunities more than 15 times than the investment.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/154944
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/91782
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/154372
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKadiyala, Suneetha; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; Dev, S. Mahendra; Kumar, T. Nanda; Vyas, Vijay. 2011. Strengthening the role of agriculture for a nutrition secure India: Nutrition insecurity in India. India Policy Note. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154944
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjecttrace elements
dc.titleStrengthening the role of agriculture for a nutrition secure India: Nutrition insecurity in India
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