Agriculture and nutrition in India: mapping evidence to pathways
Agriculture and nutrition in India: mapping evidence to pathways
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10.1111/nyas.12477
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2014-01-01
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Gillespie, Stuart
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Kadiyala, Suneetha;Harris, Jody;Gillespie, Stuart
在印度，解决营养不良问题的进展缓慢。鉴于农业部门对创收、改善饮食、护理做法和孕产妇保健的重要性，人们普遍认为农业部门在加速减少营养不良方面发挥着重要作用。本文全面绘制了印度农业营养路径的现有证据沿着，并评估了现有文献的质量和覆盖面。我们提出了一个概念框架，描绘了农业和营养之间的六个关键途径。三个途径涉及农业生产、农业收入和粮食价格的营养影响。其他三个领域涉及农业与性别的联系。经过广泛的搜索，我们发现了78篇研究论文，为这些途径提供了证据。文献表明，印度农业对营养有一系列重要影响。即使在控制收入的情况下，农业似乎也会影响饮食，相对食品价格可以部分解释近几十年来观察到的饮食变化。关于农业-性别与营养之间联系的证据相对薄弱。知识差距仍然很大。这些差距的根本原因包括营养与经济/农业之间的跨学科脱节，调查数据不足的相关问题，以及政策驱动的实验有限。缩小这些差距对于加强农业部门对减少营养不良的贡献至关重要。
In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture-nutrition pathways in India and assesses both the quality and coverage of the existing literature. We present a conceptual framework delineating six key pathways between agriculture and nutrition. Three pathways pertain to the nutritional impacts of farm production, farm incomes, and food prices. The other three pertain to agriculture-gender linkages. After an extensive search, we found 78 research papers that provided evidence to populate these pathways. The literature suggests that Indian agriculture has a range of important influences on nutrition. Agriculture seems to influence diets even when controlling for income, and relative food prices could partly explain observed dietary changes in recent decades. The evidence on agriculture-gender linkages to nutrition is relatively weak. Sizeable knowledge gaps remain. The root causes of these gaps include an interdisciplinary disconnect between nutrition and economics/agriculture, a related problem of inadequate survey data, and limited policy-driven experimentation. Closing these gaps is essential to strengthening the agriculture sector's contribution to reducing undernutrition.