Understanding District Ecosystems: Implementation of Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Policies in Sabarkantha and Bijapur Districts (India)

This paper considers the implementation of nutrition programmes in Sabarkantha in Gujarat and Bijapur in Karnataka

Abstract

Nutrition policies are shaped at a national and state level in India; however programmes are implemented by the district administration. This paper considers the implementation of nutrition programmes in 2 districts — Sabarkantha in Gujarat and Bijapur in Karnataka — drawing on a systems approach to detail:

  1. how policies and programmes related to nutrition are implemented through the district ecosystem

  2. whether programmes are integrated and complementary, both within the state machine as well as with non-state programmes

  3. what the roles of state and non-state actors are in implementation.

This work is an output of the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) programme

Citation

Lina Sonne, Anar Bhatt & Anjali Neelakantan, Understanding District Ecosystems: Implementation of Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Policies in Sabarkantha and Bijapur Districts (India) (2017). LANSA workign paper 17, 41pp

Understanding District Ecosystems: Implementation of Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Policies in Sabarkantha and Bijapur Districts (India)

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Published 1 July 2017