ACF conducted a Link NCA in India (Burhanpur District, Madhya Pradesh) from April to August 2014. The overall objective of the study was to provide a greater level of understanding regarding the possible causes of child undernutrition, ACF-India implementing only few activities focussed on two fields of expertise (IYCF and Nutrition) and existing information not allowing an in-depth comprehensive lecture of the context.
This present article presents some of the risk factors leading to undernutrition identified by the study. One should remember that a large part of the results were interrelated and that the study was looking at undernutrition in a global way (stunting and acute malnutrition).