"Rural areas in developing countries have the world's highest rates of undernutrition. Based on primary data from an innovative new study in India, this book unravels the complex and manifold causes for the prevalence of weak local diets, breaking down why food consumption choices of rural...

It has been observed that there is a marked decline in the consumption of all the cereal items over the period 1987-88 through 2001-02 in almost all the States and in both rural as well as urban areas with the reduction being particularly sharp in the case of the smaller cereal items, e.g.,...