How do the state’s organisational capacities at the micro- and macro-levels influence agriculture-nutrition linkages in fragile contexts?

Jaideep Gupte and Richard Longhurst

Food Policy, 2019, vol. 82, issue C, 74-83

Abstract: This paper systematically reviews the evidence on what capacities the state requires to leverage agriculture for nutrition in fragile contexts, maintaining a focus on state in South Asia (especially India). It uses the framework of what the state ought to do (in terms of pathways), can do (in relation to parts of the enabling environment it is able to deliver) and is willing to do (addressing constraints in terms of political choices). The results of the search were sorted into three further themes: capacity of the state to intervene systemically and intersectorally; engage with participatory and locally relevant understandings of agriculture-nutrition linkages, and to create, maintain and engage in formal spaces for dialogue.

Keywords: Fragility; State capacity; Nutrition; Agriculture; South Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.10.016

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