INDIA

Objectives:  The capacity development activities of a researcher not only contribute to research outputs but can also have an indirect

POSHAN will aim to crystallize the evidence base for action on nutrition in India, bring diverse stakeholders together and actively facilitate dialogue, evidence-building, learning and consensus building, with the goal of moving knowledge into practice in diverse contexts within India. POSHAN will build on existing initiatives, action networks, consortia and coalitions, with the primary goal of strengthening evidence-based dialogue and action.

One third of the world’s malnourished children live in India. Rates of undernutrition reduction are disturbingly sluggish when compared to the rate at which the Indian economy has grown in recent years. Given that agriculture employs more than half the Indian workforce — and is an especially important source of livelihood in poorer rural areas – the sector could and should play a bigger role in reducing undernutrition in the country.

The project aims at using an action research mode and capacity strengthening to develop and knowledge management system, for sharing information within the rural agricultural innovation systems in India. The KM system will be inform of an interactive internet based platform for facilitating knowledge and experience sharing between the various agri-stakeholders( including men and women farmers , extension agents, agricultural scientists, agro industries, agri financing institutions, policy makers and planners.

India has traversed a long journey from being a chronically food deficit country to becoming a food grains exporter with overflowing godowns. Indian food policy, whose foundations were laid during times of scarcity, today faces the daunting task of managing surpluses. Yet the country is also home to one of the largest concentrations of poor, hungry and undernourished people in the world. The challenges to India’s food security today are vastly different in nature from what they were just a few decades ago.

The objectives of the project are to promote the development and diffusion of Rural Business Hubs (RBHs) by the private sector to increase incomes, linkages to markets, and productivity of small, poor farmers including women to address the rural services vacuum ...