Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seizing the Momentum to Reshape Agriculture for Nutrition / Shenggen Fan, Sivan Yosef and Rajul Pandya-Lorch -- Agriculture for Nutrition: Direct and Indirect Effects / Derek Headey and William A. Masters -- Food Value Chains for Nutrition / Summer Allen, Mar Maestre and Aulo Gelli -- Biodiversity: an Essential Natural Resource for Improving Diets and Nutrition / Jessica Fanzo -- Improving Nutrition Through Biofortification / Howarth E. Bouis, Amy Saltzman and Ekin Biro -- Women in Agriculture and the Implications for Nutrition / Hazel Malapit -- Nutritional Ecology: Understanding the Intersection of Climate/ Environmental Change, Food Systems and Health / Daniel J. Raiten and Gerald F. Combs -- Reshaping Agriculture to Reduce Obesity / Olivier Ecker -- New Evidence on Nutrition-sensitive Agricultural Programs / Marie T. Rue -- Safety Nets for Agriculture and Nutrition / Daniel O. Gilligan -- How Can Businesses Operating in the Food System Accelerate Improvements in Nutrition? / Lawrence Haddad -- Governance and Leadership in Agri-food Systems and Nutrition / Stuart Gillespie and Nicholas Nisbett -- Building Capacity to Link Agriculture and Nutrition / Suresh Chandra Babu14 Big Data in Agriculture and Nutrition / Ruthie Musker -- Diversifying Rice-centric Agriculture and Diets: the Bangladesh Experience / Akhter U. Ahmed and Julie Ghostlaw -- Moving Towards Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture Strategies and Programming in Ethiopia / Anne Bossuyt -- Unraveling India's Malnutrition Dilemma: a Path Toward Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture / Prabhu Pingali and Mathew Abraham -- Moving Beyond Maize: the Evolution of Malawi's Agriculture-Nutrition Policy Dialogue / Noora-Lisa Aberman -- China's Road to a Nutrition-driven Agricultural and Food System / Kevin Chen and Zimeiyi Wang -- The Way Forward for Nutrition-driven Agriculture / Shenggen Fan, Sivan Yosef and Rajul Pandya-Lorch.

This book highlights the important links between agriculture and nutrition, both direct and indirect, both theoretical and practical. It explores these relationships through various frameworks, such as value chains, programmes and policies, as well as through diverse perspectives, such as gender. It assesses the impacts of various agricultural interventions and policies on nutrition and profiles the up-and-down journeys of countries such as Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, and Malawi in integrating nutrition into agricultural policies and programmes. It highlights successes such as biofortification, the integration of behaviour change communication and gender equality into existing agricultural interventions, and agriculture's role in improving household access to nutritious foods and diet diversity. It analyses challenges such as climate and environmental change, undernutrition, and obesity. And it ponders big questions, such as how to build capacity, engage with the private sector, participate in the big data revolution, and foster strong governance and leadership throughout agriculture and nutrition. The book has 20 chapters and a subject index.

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