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MOTIVATION
The TANDI project (Tackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India) aimed to generate broad-based consensus on the nature of the agriculture-nutrition disconnect in India by addressing the failure of sustained economic and agricultural growth in significantly reducing levels of undernutrition. Over an 18-month period in 2010–2011, TANDI, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, identified key pathways where agricultural growth could impact nutrition. Through stakeholder mapping and institutional capacity assessments, the project developed a strategy for leading national organizations and other stakeholders to contribute to a future nutrition knowledge-innovations network in India.
OUTCOMES
- TANDI influenced the policy dialogue in India by identifying important ways for the agriculture sector to become more nutrition-aware and help accelerate the reduction of undernutrition in India.
- Online platforms of several policymakers and non-profits online platforms focused on nutrition in India have featured TANDI results, including:
- the SecureNutrition website, one of six of the World Bank’s knowledge platforms;
- the Home Grown School Feeding site of the Partnership for Child Development; and
- the agricultural development program site of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- In 2014, The Guardian included TANDI in its list of 10 projects that are reinvigorating farming by connecting eaters and producers, encouraging youth to choose agriculture, bringing people together over food, and restoring lost culinary traditions.
