Table of Contents
Introduction Amit Thorat, Deepta Chopra, Lawrence Haddad & Sonalde Desai.
Part I The State of Undernutrition in India
1. The Assessment of Nutritional Status in India During the Dual Nutritional Burden Era Prema Ramachandran
2. The Elephant in the Dark: Finding Ways to End India’s Hunger and Malnutrition Harsh Mander
3. Commentary – Recent Evidence Shows Slow Improvement in Undernutrition in India Amit Thorat & Sonalde Desai
Part II Identifying the Policy Gaps
4. Improving Sanitation is a Policy Priority for Children's Human Capital in Rural India: Lessons from Recent Literature and the IHDS Dean Spears
5. Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and the Nutritional Status of Children in India: Understanding the Linkages and Structuring the Response Frank Cronin et al.
6. Women’s Agency and Child Underweight Rates in India in the Context of Agriculture: A District Level Analysis Swarna Sadasivam Vepa et al
7. Maternal Nutrition: Breaking the Intergeneration Cycle of Malnutrition‐Significance, Challenges and Opportunities Sheila C. Vir
8. Commentary: Undernutrition in India–A Case of Public Policy in Inertia Veena Rao
Part III Getting Existing Programs to Work Better
9. Governance Challenges to Reducing Hunger and Malnutrition in India Naresh C. Saxena
10. What Factors Support or Limit Convergence in Service Delivery to Improve Nutritional Outcomes: A Study of Policies and Programs in India Rashmi Avula
11. Tackling Child Malnutrition in India: Achieving the Doable or Chasing the Desirable? Satish Agnihotri
12. Coordination Failure: Can Multi‐Sectoral Interventions to Tackle Hunger and Malnutrition Succeed In India Santosh Mehrotra 13. Commentary: Untapped Potential of ICDS Arti Ahuja Part III NFSA: How Optimistic Should We Be?
14. Changes and State-wise Differences in the Nutritional Impact of the Indian Public Distribution System Tara Kaul
15. From the Files to the Fields: The Story of Paddy Procurement in Chhattisgarh Biraj Patnaik