Thus, while technical experts debate the relative merits and demerits of the approach to malnutrition in terms of the highly specific, targeted, narrowly focussed, and usually technical interventions, for child survival, malnourished children continue to slide into food insecurity and disempowerment along with their struggling families as a result of misdirected economic and agricultural policies.
The state of women’s health and food security is similarly symbolised by an equally recalcitrant and even more widespread nutritional anaemia. This is a failure in itself as far as women’s rights are concerned, but it is also the root cause of low birthweight, subsequent malnutrition and poor child survival. The overall empowerment of women, economic, political and social, also faces resistance that will have to be overcome before more targeted interventions for child survival and malnutrition can hope to be effective. Here, at least, the Women’s Reservation Bill moves in the right direction.
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