Tag: malnutrition

Curbing malnutrition, one poshan vatika at a time

Shreya Pareek
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Meet the woman who walks many a mile to deliver mail

Sukanya Roy

Kerala’s tribal farmers sow success with millets

K Rajendran

130 varieties and counting: Kerala taps tubers

Dr. Lakshmi Unnithan

Cut off from forests, Odisha’s tribe struggles to survive

Abhijit Mohanty

How millet magic is empowering women in rural Odisha

Village Square
In nutrition month, local foods on display around a colourful rangoli

Poshan Maah – eat nutritious, eat local

Village Square

Weak and vulnerable pandemic babies

Jigyasa Mishra

Treatment and awareness help women overcome anemia

Mohini Saha

Amphan deals a severe blow to struggling Sundarbans villagers

Abhijeet Jadhav
Women who had conserved and preserved indigenous seed varieties brought the same to the festival that encouraged them to revive agricultural biodiversity (Photo by Rakhi Ghosh)

Seed festivals put spotlight on conservation of indigenous seeds

Rakhi Ghosh

Community kitchens help tribal children overcome malnutrition

Rakhi Ghosh
Participatory learning and action meetings have helped participants like Saraswati Bodra take care of the nutrition needs of her twin sons and that of herself before and after delivery (Photo by Gurvinder Singh)

Better awareness improves maternal and child health

Gurvinder Singh
Rural health workers are typically overburdened and have to work in trying conditions (Photo by Piyal Adhikary)

Missing foot soldiers in the war on poverty

Sanjiv Phansalkar
Tribal women packing millet biscuits for children of government schools at the community owned Neelamma Thalli bakery (Photo by C. Shambu Prasad)

Collective enterprise fights malnutrition with millets

C. Shambu Prasad
Qualified and specially trained nurses man primary healthcare AMRIT clinics in villages that lack access to hospitals (Photo courtesy Basic HealthCare Services)

Nursing the underserved to health in rural Rajasthan

Manisha Dutta
Nutrition gardens, such as the one cultivated by Alladini Bhanda and her husband Ashok in Ratanpur village, supply diverse and nutritious vegetables at no cost (Photo by Basudev Mahapatra)

Odisha women fight malnutrition with backyard gardens

Basudev Mahapatra
The Bondas of Malkangiri in Odisha, like other particularly vulnerable tribal groups, have been left out of India’s development story. (Photo by Saurabh Chatterjee)

India’s bureaucracy has failed its forest dwellers

Sanjiv Phansalkar
Children and their teacher at a daycare center that has none of the facilities mandated by ICDS. (Photo by Abhijit Mohanty)

Adivasis in Odisha suffer the most due to malnutrition

Abhijit Mohanty