Time use patterns and household adversities: A lens to understand the construction of gender privilege among children and adolescents in India Dibyasree Ganguly Kriti Vikram and Srinivas Goli

We investigate gender differences in time-use patterns in 1891 children and assess how time is reallocated in response to challenges faced by households in India. We use adaptations made within a household during adversities to understand how gender inequality in time use is produced and...   Read More

Gender and Generation: Landownership and Older Indians’ Autonomy Sonalde Desai Debasis Barik Hope Xu Yan

While increased access to household assets has been shown to improve older individuals’ autonomy and bargaining power at home, the role of gender hierarchy in shaping differential impacts of household assets has received far less attention. This article explores the gender asymmetry in the association...   Read More

Assessing needs for interdisciplinarity in agriculture, nutrition, and health education Reshma Roshania Joe Yates, Lauren McIntyre, Tim Chancellor, Emily Fivian, Michael Hill, Rosemary Isoto, Pamela Marinda, Sudha Narayanan, Louise Whatford, Francis Zotor, Shweta Khandelwal

Addressing all forms of malnutrition requires multi-sectoral actions. To accelerate progress, post-graduate education – of future researchers, policy-makers and practitioners – that promotes interdisciplinary knowledge and skills is imperative. We report findings from a mixed-methods needs assessment designed to assess enabling and constraining factors to integrated agriculture,...   Read More

Food Environments, Food Security, and Household Food Availability of Circular Migrant Families: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Brick Kiln Laborers in Bihar, India Reshma Roshania Amy Webb-Girard, Aritra Das, Rakesh Giri, G. Sai Mala, Sridhar Srikantiah, Melissa F. Young, Tanmay Mahapatra, Usha Ramakrishna

Background: Circular migration is the dominant pattern of movement in India and is a livelihood strategy used by many food insecure rural households. Repeated shifts in food environments have important implications on household food security and dietary patterns but have not been studied. Objective: To explore differences...   Read More

The paradox of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India: An artefact of survey design? Sonalde Desai Santanu Pramanik Bijay Chouhan

National Family Health Survey round 4 of 2015–2016 (IIPS & ICF, 2017) bring important data for planning and policy evaluation but they also present some puzzles. Total fertility rate declined substantially between 2005-06 when NFHS-3 (IIPS & Macro International, 2007) was conducted and 2015-16 from 2.68 (95%...   Read More