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Putting food at the centre of India’s nutrition agenda -SV Subramanian and William Joe

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published Published on Dec 18, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 18, 2020

-The Hindu

Reducing the burden of child undernutrition needs a policy goal — providing affordable access to quality food items

The provisional verdict from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2019-20 factsheets on the burden of child undernutrition is not encouraging, with few exceptions. For the most part, this assessment has relied on the measure of a child’s anthropometry, i.e., children are defined as stunted, underweight or wasted if their standardised height-for-age, weight-for-age or weight-for-height, respectively, is more than two standard deviations below the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards median.

However, undernutrition can also be measured by observing the adequacy and sufficiency of food or dietary intake among children. So how do Indian children fare when we bring a food measure to tell us about their nutritional status?

Diet-related undernutrition

Across the 22 States/Union Territories for which the NFHS-5 has released the factsheets, the percentage of children (aged 6-23 months) who do not meet the minimum dietary adequacy — as defined under the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices by WHO — is 83.9%; a decline of just over 2 percentage points from what was observed in NFHS-4 (2015-16). Thus, eight out of 10 children appear to be experiencing a dietary shortfall. It would not be surprising if this situation has worsened (https://bit.ly/3nrJloI) with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing 2020 lockdown.

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The Hindu, 18 December, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/putting-food-at-the-centre-of-indias-nutrition-agenda/article33358244.ece?homepage=true


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