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Gillespie, Stuart, Poole, Nigel, van den Bold, Mara, Bhavani, R. V., Dangour, Alan D. and Shetty, Prakash (2019) 'Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia: What do we know, and what have we learned?' Food Policy, 82. pp. 3-12.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Agriculture; Agrifood; Nutrition; South Asia; LANSA
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Interdisciplinary Studies > Centre for Development, Environment and Policy
ISSN: 03069192
Copyright Statement: © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/)
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.10.012
Date Deposited: 20 Dec 2018 10:50
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/30079
Funders: Other

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