Household Approaches to Factors Affecting Nutrition: A Study of Two Indian Districts

The authors interview 100 women across 4 rural villages in Bijapur, Karnataka and Sabarkantha, Gujarat

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
20 October 2017
Country:
India
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Food and Nutrition
First published:
1 August 2017
Authors:
Neelakantan, A and Sonne, L

Abstract

A number of factors affect a household바카라 사이트™s nutritional status: food production; access and availability of food; care in the home; health, water, sanitation and hygiene practices; women바카라 사이트™s agency and empowerment; and women바카라 사이트™s role as primary caregivers.

This paper explores these factors at the household level by interviewing 100 women across 4 rural villages in Bijapur, Karnataka and Sabarkantha, Gujarat.

This study seeks to improve our perception of how women and their families understand nutrition and whether some of the factors affecting nutrition are given less importance compared to others. The authors find that households think of nutrition primarily as healthy food that provides energy for physical work.

This work is part of the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) programme

Citation

Anjali Neelakantan & Lina Sonne (2017) Household Approaches to Factors Affecting Nutrition: A Study of Two Indian District. LANSA Working Paper No 18

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