Nutri Smart Village Initiatives : Strategies to Combat Malnutrition

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Shilpi Verma et al.
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2021
Hardbound

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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).

Features:
 Focus on Food-based strategies rooted in the sustainable use of biological resources could be an important strategy to maintain and/or improve habitual diets and health.

 Efforts on strategy to improve food basket through crop diversification, biofortification and options are well discussed.

 Developing kitchen gardens and also engage women with local health care services.

Sustainable solutions to the hidden hunger can be achieved by closely linking agriculture to nutrition, health and by formulating agricultural and nutritional practices together with health policies to reflect this need.

The present book focuses on such strategies or a way out that can help the vulnerable groups to overcome malnutrition.

1. Focus on Crop Diversification and Establishing Food Grain Bank to
Overcome Malnutrition 1
Virendra Singh and Jodh Pal Singh

2. Nutritional-Phenomics to Combat Global Malnutrition and Obesity 15
Ritu R Saxena, Mangla Parikh and Shilpi Verma

3. Household Health Security Through Nutritional Gardens 35
Rekha Tiwari, D.S.Tomar and R.P.Sharma

4. Eradicating Malnutrition Through Nutrient Dense
Low Cost/ Local Food Items 47
Barkha Sharma and Ramdhan Ghaswa

5. Preventive Strategy for Infection 73
Swati Dave

6. Corrective Measures for Micro-Nutrient Deficiencies 81
Ragini Ranawat and Shatakshi Semwal

7. Combating Malnutrition Through Information
Communication Technologies 97
LalitaVatta and Samiksha Bhati
8. Government Approaches for Health Care System 111
Neerja Patel and Moni Singh

9. Role of Media in Nutrition Literacy to Combat Malnutrition 139
Ragini Ranawat and Shatakshi Semwal

10. Role of Pre and Probiotics Food 151
Gayatree Jadeja

11. Home Fortification and Supplimentation: Strategy to
Alleviate Malnutrition 181
Moni Singh and Neerja Patel

12. Eliminating Gender Bias and Ensuring Women Empowerment 203
Rashmi Shukla, Y.K.Shukla and D.K.Vani

13. Street Foods and Strategies to Improve the Street Foods 231
Shilpi Verma and P.S.Naruka

14. First Thousand Days – A Window of Opportunity 249
Ankita Sharma

15. Supporting Traditional Foods and Practices 263
Divya Pandey and Nagesh Narayan Panday

16. Community Participation to Combat Malnutrition 281
Kesar Chayal, Shatakshi Semwal and Lalita Vatta

17. Nutrition Surveillance 291
Vedavalli Sachithananthan

18. Enhancing Purchasing Capacity of Nutritious Food 305
Rekha Tiwari, D.S.Tomar and R.P.Sharma

19. Integrated Farming System (IFS) 315
J.P. Singh, Virendra Singh, P.S.Naruka, S.S.Sarangdevot and C.P. Pachauri

20. Cognitive Development and Nutritional Wellbeing in Early Life 337
Manju Kanwar Rathore and Garima Gupta