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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Diet of average Indian lacks protein, fruit, vegetables (Prokerala)

June 23, 2020


Prokerala published an article on the new study,  A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet,.from the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). One of the authors, A4NH Program Manager Manika Sharma stated, “The EAT-Lancet diet is not a silver bullet for the myriad nutrition and environmental challenges food systems currently present, but it does provide a useful guide for evaluating how healthy and sustainable Indian diets are.” Coauthor, Research Analyst Kuhu Joshi added, “But we find it intriguing that despite lower calorie consumption levels, obesity is still rising in India.” 

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