GS3 · 10 marks · 150 words

Explain the concept of a nutrition-sensitive food system and suggest strategies to achieve it in the country.

Answered by 3 toppers · CSE 2017–2025

Food Security and PDSInclusive GrowthBiotechnologySubsidies and MSPCrops and Cropping Patterns

Syllabus: Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing.

How toppers approached it

From all 3 answers · about 180 words · 33% drew a diagram.

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The toppers’ answers

Dishant A NisarAIR 19 · CSE 2025 · 122 wordsTheir whole copy

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India suffers from paradox of over-food yet hunger and poor nutritional outcomes. NFHS-survey → 56% Anaemic women.

Body · points and prose

Diagram
- Nutrition Sensitive Food System - 1) Balanced diet → consisting of multinutrients (vitamins, protein etc. - 2) Targetted interventions to ensure nutrition outcomes → Disease burden less - 3) Includes essential elements for age-sensitive groups. - 4) Fruits, vegetables, poultry, dairy etc for holistic food. - 5) Ensure health outcomes and not just decline of hunger → Reduce stunting.

Strategies to achieve it →

  1. Food fortification → Rice and folic acid Salt and iodine.

  2. Residue free farming → to reduce pesticide harmful impact on food.

  3. Promote balanced diets in foundational health → Midday meal scheme → dairy, fruits. (Kokrajhar model of Assam → locally sourced holistic food items in meals)

  4. Promote diet specific foods ↙ ↘ Vegetarian Non-vegetarian ↳ Pulses, Tofu, dairy ↳ eggs, meat, fish.

  5. Testing laboratories to determine outcomes

  6. Multivitamin tablets, Iron pills etc to reduce deficiency via Generic medicine shops.

  7. Community healthcare → ASHA, Aanganwadi

Close · a framework

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Good health by nutrition-sensitive food leads to SDG-1,2,3

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