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Waves of transformation: How adolescent girls and young women in Bihar are orchestrating better nutritional behaviours

October 16, 2019 / Madhulika V. Narasimhan

The short visit to communities in Bihar was a lesson learnt on one key thing: nothing is impossible if people come together to act towards a certain cause. Bihar is witnessing both political will and the people’s commitment on nutrition. The foundation has been laid for achieving better maternal and child nutrition outcomes through the several interventions, and the ripples of transformation are manifesting themselves in every individual’s voice we met. Here’s hoping every voice reverberates through the future and we can truly motor towards a malnutrition-free India!

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Teach to Reach: Moving from theory to implementation and taking action in India

October 08, 2018 / Amanda Beal, Dr. Bhupendra Tripathi

At the third global Teach to Reach Summit, participants learned how to turn their ideas for how to improve workforce capacity into action.

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Risk management is the way forward for farming

September 19, 2018 / Anjani Bansal, Marcella McClatchey, Nachiket Mor

If farmers, the world over, including in emerging economies such as India, are able to benefit from such approaches towards price and yield risk management, they will be able to build a great deal of resilience in their approaches towards agriculture.

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Overhaul the medicine supply chain

September 06, 2018 / Nachiket Mor, Prashant Yadav

Traditional lines between public, private, online, and physical are starting to blur and, as a result, direct-to-home and online pharmacy models have developed more quickly in emerging markets like India than many had expected(Sonu Mehta/HT)

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Gut microbes are critical enablers

August 16, 2018 / Chris Damman, Nachiket Mor

Promoting the development of healthy gut bacteria through appropriate nutritional interventions could go a long way in boosting overall health.

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  • "The number of people dying from AIDS has gone down by more than 20% in the last five years, to fewer than 2 million annually. Given the lives that at stake, I'm impatient enough that I'm willing to be viewed as a troublemaker by those happy with the status quo." —Bill Gates

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