Nutri-Smart Village Initiatives: Strategies to Combat Malnutrition
Contents: 1. Focus on crop diversification and establishing food grain bank to overcome Malnutrition/Virendra Singh and Jodh Pal Singh. 2. Nutritional-phenomics to combat global malnutrition and obesity/Ritu R Saxena, Mangla Parikh and Shilpi Verma. 3. Household health security through nutritional gardens/Rekha Tiwari, D.S.Tomar and R.P.Sharma. 4. Eradicating malnutrition through nutrient dense low cost/ local food items/Barkha Sharma and Ramdhan Ghaswa. 5. Preventive strategy for infection/Swati Dave. 6. Corrective measures for micro-nutrient deficiencies/Ragini Ranawat and Shatakshi Semwal. 7. Combating malnutrition through information communication technologies/LalitaVatta and Samiksha Bhati. 8. Government approaches for health care system/Neerja Patel and Moni Singh. 9. Role of media in nutrition literacy to combat malnutrition/Ragini Ranawat and Shatakshi Semwal. 10. Role of pre and probiotics Food/Gayatree Jadeja. 11. Home fortification and supplimentation: strategy to alleviate malnutrition/Moni Singh and Neerja Patel. 12. Eliminating gender bias and ensuring women empowerment/Rashmi Shukla, Y.K. Shukla and D.K.Vani. 13. street foods and strategies to improve the street foods/Shilpi Verma and P.S. Naruka. 4. First thousand days – a window of opportunity/Ankita Sharma. 15. Supporting traditional foods and practices/Divya Pandey and Nagesh Narayan Panday. 16. Community participation to combat malnutrition/Kesar Chayal, Shatakshi Semwal and Lalita Vatta. 17. Nutrition surveillance/Vedavalli Sachithananthan. 18. Enhancing purchasing capacity of nutritious food/Rekha Tiwari, D.S.Tomar and R.P. Sharma.19. Integrated Farming System (IFS)/J.P. Singh, Virendra Singh, P.S. Naruka, S.S. Sarangdevot and C.P. Pachauri. 20. Cognitive development and nutritional wellbeing in early life/Manju Kanwar Rathore and Garima Gupta.
The nation has come a long way in increasing production of food for security as well as nutritional security. The inter relationship of agriculture, food, cooking processes and health are highly complex and profoundly significant. It is complex relationships as change in any one component have effects on the viability and functioning of the other. India is home to a quarter of world’s 795 million hungry people worldwide where the triple burden of malnutrition coexists. The pervasive micronutrient deficiency is known as HIDDEN HUNGER. World Bank data indicates that India has one of the world’s highest demographics of children suffering from malnutrition. If food systems, based in agriculture, cannot provide all the essential nutrients in adequate quantities to sustain human life during all seasons, diseases ensue, societies suffer and development efforts stagnate.
The book chapters in present book address these issues of malnutrition at the grassroots level where adoption of a multi-sectoral nutrition-sensitive approach is required. It works closely with the local communities to bring out individuals and families from the shackles of malnutrition and create nutrition smart villages. It is a model village where communities understand and take charge of their nutrition requirements, integrating agriculture with natural resource management, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
