Nourishing India’s Cities
CLIENT: Chicago Council on Global Affairs HERE
PROJECT: Report on India’s Urban Food System
India’s cities could have another 404 million mouths to feed by the year 2050. Yet today, the majority of urban residents do not achieve the daily intake of nutrition recommended by India’s National Institute of Nutrition. For the most vulnerable urban residents, a variety of public health interventions and social safety nets are required. But growing demand in urban food markets also necessitates significant transformation of India’s food supply chain.
In this paper commissioned by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Andrea Durkin describes the state of India’s food system, which remains largely unorganized and highly fragmented, and lays out some of the prerequisites to fostering the necessary public and private sector investments in more vertically integrated sourcing, in modern logistics services, in large-scale food processing, and in retail efficiencies – four critical routes to improving urban nutrition and food security in India.
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