Drought conditions require climate-resilient crops to address and India's nutrition gap
India, Oct. 26 -- At the heart of both unseasonal rains, droughts and heatwaves is the climate crisis which is inextricably interlinked with these. And the interlinkages between climate, agriculture and nutrition must be tackled on an ongoing basis. The climate crisis is already affecting harvests leading to significant lowering of crop output in many districts affected. The climate crisis also affects the quality of food. A national study that matched an index of agricultural vulnerability to the climate crisis with NFHS-4 data found that children in the most climate-vulnerable districts had 32% higher odds of stunting, 42% higher odds of wasting, 45% higher odds of being underweight and 63% higher odds of anaemia than children in the le...
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