Part of: Prelims and Mains GS-II: Government policies
In News: Government has launched a Nutrition Smart Village program.
Aims to reach out to 75 villages across India through the network of All India Coordinated Research Project on Women in Agriculture (AICRP-WIA) which is in operation at 13 centres in 12 States of India to strengthen the Poshan Abhiyan – Malnutrition free villages
Promoting nutritional awareness, education and behavioural change in rural areas involving farm women and school children,
Harnessing traditional knowledge through the local recipe to overcome malnutrition
Implementing nutrition-sensitive agriculture through homestead agriculture and Nutri-garden
Awareness among the women farmers will also be created about their legal rights in all walks of life.
