Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN) is a four-year initiative that builds evidence on effective ways to improve nutrition and supports the use of this evidence in decisionmaking.
Tackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India
What lies behind the enduring paradox of persistent undernutrition in a rapidly growing economy? How can we bridge the agriculture-nutrition disconnect? Addressing such concerns was the primary goal of the TANDI project (Tackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India)
Marketing of Multiple Micronutrient Powders in Bangladesh
MOTIVATION Micronutrient malnutrition—or, “hidden hunger”—is a chronic lack of vitamins and minerals that can lead to severe physical and mental health problems, especially when it afflicts children who are still growing. Dietary supplements called multiple micronutrient powders can add valuable nutrients to food and potentially prevent iron-deficiency anemia in infants and young children. But, even >> Read more
Food for Education in Bangladesh
MOTIVATION In 1991 IFPRI conducted a comprehensive study of a targeted food subsidy program in Bangladesh known as palli (rural) rationing. The Institute found that subsidies equivalent to US$60 million were being provided each year to run the program but about 70 percent of the subsidized food (mostly rice) was not actually making its way >> Read more
Establishing a Framework for Food Security in Bangladesh
MOTIVATION In 2001, IFPRI helped prepare a comprehensive report on national food security. This framework examined the “food gap”—that is, the difference between the country’s total food grain requirement (based on normative consumption rates for the entire population) and the total domestic production of food grains—food aid requirements, and the overall availability and accessibility of >> Read more
The Dragon and the Elephant
MOTIVATION China and India have had incredible economic transformations in recent years, moving from two of the world’s poorest countries to burgeoning superpowers. Along with partners from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, IFPRI researchers compared the reform experiences of China and India in The Dragon and the >> Read more
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