United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) set up 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. One of various SDGs is achieve zero hunger, which directly connected end food security improved nutrition. Present study attempted analyse dimensions insecurity among tribal households Gujarat with help Foster, Greer Thorbecke (FGT) index. The head coun...

Abstract It is widely expected that agriculture would contribute to farmers’ food security and nutrition in developing countries. However, studies directly explore the link between agricultural productivity micronutrients intake by farmers are scarce. In this paper, we filling gap exploring two key channels which production can influence dietary outcomes: a consumption pathway cash revenue path...

Low dietary diversity is one of the major causes malnutrition in Kenya. As a result, government Kenya and its partners have promoted uptake plant based legumes such as Improved Groundnut Varieties to offer solution rising cases poor nutrition. Understanding impact on critical but evidence shows that it’s not yet explored. This study sought estimate (IGVs) among smallholder farmers Homa Bay Coun...

Evidence on whether diversifying farm production leads to improved household dietary diversity and nutrition remains inconclusive. Existing studies analyzing the link between are mainly based cross-sectional methods, which could be biased by omitted confounding factors. Using two waves of a panel survey 900 rural households in Tanzania, this paper examines diversity, while minimizing potential ...

Background: Many malnourished children in resource-poor settings fail to fulfill their developmental potential.Objective: The objectives of this analysis were to examine the nutritional, psychosocial, environmental, and household correlates of child development in Bihar, India, and identify mediators between dietary diversity and mental development.Methods: Using 2-stage cluster randomized samp...

With the rapidly changing economic environments and numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmers’ innovations may be essential in the livelihoods of rural farm households and need to be promoted. Yet a rigorous assessment of the impacts of farmer innovation is lacking. Consequently, we analyse the effect of farmer inn...

Further reductions in pollution will require new management approaches based on ecosystem concepts. In this paper we examine three case studies that analyze flows of nutrients in urban ecosystems to identify new approaches for pollution management. An analysis of the food chain for the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) is used to examine generation of nutrient pollution in the ...

Malnutrition, particularly micronutrient deficiencies, contributes significantly to the high rates of maternal and child mortality in Asia. In Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and the Philippines at least half of preschool children and pregnant women are affected by micronutrient deficiencies. To combat these deficiencies and resulting negative health outcomes, Helen Keller International has been im...