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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Covid-19: Feeding the future of India -Sunil Rajpal

Covid-19: Feeding the future of India -Sunil Rajpal

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published Published on Aug 24, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 27, 2020

-Financial Express

Check nutritional vulnerability amongst poor children during the lockdown.

In India, inequitable distribution of resources is a major challenge that has impeded access to nutrition for a sizeable population and harmed the children the most. According to the National Family Health Survey, 2015-16, every second child, aged 0-5 years, from the poorest 20% households in India suffers from some form of undernutrition, i.e. stunting or underweight or wasting. However, the conventional indicators of stunting (height-to-age), underweight (weight-to-age) and wasting (weight-to-height) are based on binary cut-offs (Yes-1/No-0) and do not reflect those children who are just around the cut-off.

The issue assumes urgent policy salience in the current time of distress due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing policy response that has caused catastrophic impacts on food and health delivery systems.

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Financial Express, 24 August, 2020, https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/covid-19-feeding-the-future-of-india/2063264/


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