Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India

This book explores identity-mediated dynamics of food and nutrition entitlement in urban India analysing concerns around equity, access to food and public health.

Autorentext

Neetu Choudhary is Associate Professor of Economics with the Amity University Patna, India and Adjunct Faculty with the Arizona State University, USA. She has been a Fulbright Fellow with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU. She is a doctorate in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She has published considerably in the area of nutrition and water insecurity, gender, and informal workers organizing. She was also awarded the Global Development Network Award for best research on development in 2014. Among her non-academic assignments, she has been engaged in research collaboration with several UN organizations.

Inhalt

List of figures. List of tables. 1. Introduction 2. The food and nutrition discourse- underlining the urban agenda 3. Is malnutrition an urban challenge in India? 4. Identity as a source of deprivation: group inequality in child malnutrition in urban India 5. Migrants in Mumbai: how secure nutritionally? 6. Isolated pockets in Mumbai: disentitled and de-nourished 7. Urban South: conceptualizing a food system of its own. Index.