Shantanu Mitra
Team Leader, Climate Change and Development, DFID India
My job is to ensure that DFID’s work in India – our biggest country programme – responds to the risks and opportunities to development posed by climate change. I have spent most of my career working as an economist – a discipline I draw upon almost daily in thinking about climate change and development.
Tackling poverty in the kitchen
Posted 16 October 2011
Thinking about what to blog on the theme of food for Blog Action Day, I considered what cooking has to do with poverty. Many people would point to the role of dietary habits in tackling malnutrition, and they'd be right. But another crucial link, now starting to get the attention it deserves, is between indoor [...]
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