Pathways from agriculture to nutrition in India: Implications for sustainable development goals

Mousumi Das, Ajay Sharma and Suresh Chandra Babu

No 1649, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Food security and nutrition policy interventions generally rely on selective measures. Yet recent literature emphasizes the importance of identifying different pathways from agriculture to nutrition for better nutritional outcomes. Using a disaggregated dashboard approach with agriculture, food consumption, and demographic and health survey data, this study examines the progress of Indian states toward the Sustainable Development Goals. There is evidence of both disconnects and linkages among food security indicators along the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Through a broadened and comprehensive approach under one coordinating body with a good set of improved interventions and governance, Indian states can attain food and nutrition security by 2030. Such evidence based policy making is need of the hour to observe impact on the ground, rather than framing policies based on ideologies. At a time when the focus is more and more on impact, the shift to why we do research and what it contributes to solving the problem is increasingly important.

Keywords: sustainable development goals; indicators; commercial farming; nutrition; agricultural development; food security; agro-industrial sector; poverty; India; Southern Asia; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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