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Food assistance during emergencies is neither culturally competent nor geographically targeted. : Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Free_Food_Distribution_-_Gangasagar_Fair_Transit_Camp_-_Kolkata_2012-01-14_0613.JPG CC BY 3.0

Modifying traditional foods for disaster-prone states in India can ensure adequate nutrition for people most in need.

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Food aid can be food wasted

Modifying traditional foods for disaster-prone states in India can ensure adequate nutrition for people most in need.

Society
Challenges to the supply and demand sides of food in India is increasing poverty across the country. : Anurag Gautam, Unsplash CC BY 4.0

India’s inflation problem is making hunger worse and attempts to fix inflation may just add to poverty.

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India’s social safety net offers lessons as food prices rocket up

India’s inflation problem is making hunger worse and attempts to fix inflation may just add to poverty.

Economy
The Fijian diet has shifted in recent years away from food and vegetables, towards carbohydrates and sugar. : Pacific Community CC 2.0

Taxes on sugary drinks can often improve a nation’s economy, rather than having the devastating impact industry has claimed.

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Sugar tax could boost both health and economy

Taxes on sugary drinks can often improve a nation’s economy, rather than having the devastating impact industry has claimed.

Health
More than half of South African schools still sell soft drinks : Andrew Shiva (Wikimedia) CC 4.0

Soft-drink manufacturers are targeting Africa, but industry-led pledges to reduce the sale of sugary drinks subvert better government-led policy options.

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Why are sugary drinks still sold in schools?

Health
The nutritional quality of many Indians’ diets have deteriorated since the start of the pandemic. : Melissa Viiron, Unsplash CC BY 4.0

One in five children in India are too thin, and yet at the same time obesity levels are on the rise.

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India’s double edged nutrition problem

Health
Corn in the USA is often grown to feed cattle : Ammodramus (Wikimedia) cc 4.0

The world’s farmers grow crops for food as well as other uses. Those other uses threaten to crowd out our chance to feed the world’s hungry.

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Non-food crops are eating up our food

Environment
Keeping fresh food GST free helps keep it affordable. : Photo by Somi Jaiswal on Unsplash Public domain

Of the many government-led strategies to promote healthy diets, keeping healthy food free of sales taxes offers clear benefits.

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One simple solution to healthy, affordable food

Economy
Affordability of nutritious food is a major problem in many parts of the world. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

Backgrounder: 602 words

360info is exploring the evidence on nutritious and affordable food from multiple country perspectives.

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