Journal Article

World Development 64

Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition?

Published on 1 December 2014

Undernutrition affects over 2 billion people; but most of the global policy focus has been on technical solutions rather than an understanding of nutrition politics.

This paper reviews existing literature on nutrition politics and policy. We identify a number of recurring themes surrounding knowledge; politics, and capacities. While the literature on nutrition politics and policy is growing; we demonstrate how there are a number of gaps in our understanding that might be addressed from wider development scholarship on politics and related issues such as power and the state, participation, and accountability.

Authors

Nicholas Nisbett

Research Fellow

Stuart Gillespie

Honorary Associate

Lawrence Haddad

Honorary Associate

Jody Harris

Honorary Associate

Publication details

published by
Elsevier
authors
Nisbett, N., Gillespie, S., Haddad, L., Harris, J.
journal
World Development, volume 64
doi
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.06.018
language
English

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