Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India

Nutrition and the Demand for Tastes

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Quinoa Quandary: Cultural Tastes and Nutrition in Peru

Using a model of household food demand that incorporates regional preferences (tastes) for culturally appropriate food, I investigate whether tastes for quinoa in the Puno region of Peru reduce household nutrition intakes when quinoa prices dramatically increase between 2004 and 2012. Adapting a model from Atkin (2013b) and utilizing data from a national Peruvian household survey (ENAHO), I am ...

Food and Nutrition in India

Nutrition transition in India.

OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this review is to examine the demographic and nutrition transition in India in relation to its contribution to the emerging epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases in this country. SETTING India, the country as a whole and its different states with a population exceeding 1 billion in 2001. SUBJECTS The review examines demographic changes in the popul...

Child Nutrition in India

Malnutrition plagues a disproportionately large number of children in India compared with most other countries. National-level data on child malnutrition in India have, however, been scarce. Recognizing this gap, India’s 1992–93 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) collected anthropometric data on the height and weight of children below four years of age. The NFHS is based on a large, nationall...