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  Seasonal variation in the proximal determinants of undernutrition during the first 1000 days of life in rural South Asia: a comprehensive review

  Elsevier, 2018
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  Food distribution value chains under the Integrated Child Development Services

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018

  Globally, social provisioning of food is recognised as an important means to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition. Government food distribution programmes have potential for impact at scale in this context.
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  Private business-driven value chains and nutrition: insights from India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018

  Despite rapid economic growth, undernutrition rates in South Asia remain among the highest in the world. It is also seen that both rural and urban populations in developing countries are increasingly dependent on markets for food. This makes examining the potential of different agri‑food models to deliver nutritious foods relevant.
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  Would the people of Chhattisgarh prefer cash transfers instead of foodgrain?

  Sameeksha Trust, 2017

  The overwhelming and consistent preference for grain over cash is striking, especially since this preference was expressed by both men and women, irrespective of class, age, or community. It is useful to examine reasons for this sharp preference for grain over cash against the background of national debates about cash transfers.
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  Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India

  Science Direct, 2018

  Is there an alternative model to small family farming that could provide sustainable livelihoods to millions of resource-constrained and often non-viable smallholders in developing countries? Could group farming constitute such an alternative, wherein smallholders voluntarily pool land, labour and capital to create larger farms that they manage collectively?
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  Supplementary Nutrition Programme under ICDS: Case Study of Telangana and Tamil Nadu

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2018

  Government food distribution programmes have the potential to reduce malnutrition at scale. The Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in India presents a unique example of a state-led food distribution initiative to address malnutrition.
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  Value chains for nutrition in South Asia: who delivers, how, and to whom?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018

  There is currently much talk of the private sector role in nutrition, and whether the state can ‘shape’ the market to deliver better nutritional outcomes.  This issue of the IDS Bulletin presents research findings in this area, developed by the consortium of research partners under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) programme.
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  Public distribution system in Tamil Nadu: Implications for household consumption

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2018

  Food and nutrition insecurity is a reality for a large number of people in India. Social safety nets to ensure food security of the poor and vulnerable become important in such a scenario. The Public Distribution System (PDS) in India is an example of one such safety measure.
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  Gendered time, seasonality and nutrition: insights from two Indian districts: Research Brief

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017

  There has been considerable attention to women’s work in nutritional studies, given women’s central role in child-bearing, child-care and child-rearing. Similarly, employment data indicates women’s high work-participation in agriculture – a phenomenon commonly known as the feminisation of agriculture, albeit as labourers and unpaid family workers, rather than independent cultivators. 
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  Explaining cross-state disparities in child nutrition in rural India

  Elsevier, 2015

  What drives the large disparities in height-for-age distributions among Indian states - variation in observed nutrition-related endowments, such as wealth or maternal education, or differential strengths of relationships across states between endowments and height-for-age?

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