A Healthy, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems Approach for India

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dc.creatorSingh, Vartika
dc.creatorDas, Prantika
dc.creatorJha, Chandan
dc.creatorGhosh, Ranjan Kumar
dc.creatorStevanovic, Miodrag
dc.creatorLotze-Campen, Hermann
dc.creatorPopp, Alexander
dc.date2023-10-10
dc.date2024-01-04T12:47:28Z
dc.date2024-01-04T12:47:28Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:34:44Z
dc.descriptionThe urgency of India’s food system transformation is more pronounced than ever. Despite high economic growth and rising per capita incomes, approximately 194 million people in India remain undernourished and there is a high prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies, particularly among women and children under 5 years. Agri-food systems in India employ more than 50% of the workforce and engage nearly 82% of smallholder farmers. Therefore, ensuring inclusive growth and reduced poverty necessitates new and enhanced livelihood and employment opportunities in the agri-food sector. We use an integrated suite of models to create macro policy scenarios for India until 2050. These scenarios are centered around equitable livelihoods by ensuring minimum wages for agricultural labor, and inclusive development through reduction in income inequalities and wage gaps. Our results suggest that multiple livelihood-enhancing measures, such as minimum wages and capital investments, when combined, have a weakening effect on inclusion outcomes. Employment levels significantly decline, affecting 19 million people. This has higher negative effects on women whose agricultural employment has been found to reduce disproportionately with increased capital investments. However, livelihoods improve from higher wages and lower economic costs of production. Transformative actions encouraging agricultural labor engagements can potentially increase the share of labor requirements to 73.5% by 2050, compared to 67% in the baseline, thereby enhancing employment opportunities for nine million individuals. Our integrated Food Systems Development Pathway, which integrates multidimensional policy measures, reports strong trade-offs with the goals of inclusion as the largest decline in employment is observed in this scenario following an increase in wages and labor productivity
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/137109
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/108387
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceSingh, Vartika; Das, Prantika; Jha, Chandan; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Popp, Alexander. 2023. A Healthy, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems Approach for India. Poster. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137109
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectresearch
dc.titleA Healthy, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems Approach for India
dc.typePoster

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