India’s domestic food production is capable of supplying adequate micronutrients to its growing population in spite of water and land constraints, but achieving this will require a shift away from the current focus on rice and wheat and towards vegetables, fruit and lentils.
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Shankar, B. Nutrition under natural resource constraints. Nat Food 1, 594 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00170-z
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