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How Do Droughts Impact Household Food Consumption and Nutritional Intake? A Study of Rural India
| العنوان: | How Do Droughts Impact Household Food Consumption and Nutritional Intake? A Study of Rural India |
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| المؤلفون: | Carpena, Fenella |
| المصدر: | World Development |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Oslo and Akershus University College: ODA (Open Digital Archive) / Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus (HiOA) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Food security, Food utilizations, Nutrition, Droughts, South Asia, India |
| الوصف: | This paper investigates the impacts of droughts on food expenditure and macronutrient consumption among rural Indian households. To isolate causal effects, I exploit random year-to-year variation in a dry shock, defined as the absolute deviation of rainfall below its long-run mean. I find that the dry shock has a statistically significant and negative effect on household nutrition. For a median dry shock, I esti- mate that households spend 1 percent less per capita per month on food and consume up to 1.4 percent fewer calories, protein, and fat. Disaggregating the effects by food group, I demonstrate that household diets become less balanced as a result of droughts: the dry shock leads households to rely primarily on cereals and to purchase less vegetables, fruits, pulses, and animal-sourced foods. Hence, droughts neg- atively impact not only the quantity but also the quality of rural household diets. Finally, I explore the potential channels for these effects. I argue that rather than higher food prices, a decline in household market and non-market income is the primary reason for lower household food consumption and nutri- tion during droughts. Taken together, these findings suggest that attaining food security amid extreme weather conditions requires an integrated approach that focuses on food not only for survival but also for leading a healthy and active life. ; This paper was written as part of the research project FOODSEC (Food Security in India: The Interactions of Climate Change, Economics, Politics, and Trade). The FOODSEC project was supported by the Research Council of Norway (Project No. 226057) during 2013-2016. ; acceptedVersion |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0305-750X 1873-5991 |
| Relation: | World Development;Volume 122, October 2019; Norges forskningsråd: 226057; Carpena F. How Do Droughts Impact Household Food Consumption and Nutritional Intake? A Study of Rural India. World Development. 2019;122:349-369; urn:issn:0305-750X; urn:issn:1873-5991; https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7462; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.005; cristin:1705887 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.005 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7462 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.005 |
| Rights: | © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.4F9DD729 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 0305750X 18735991 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.005 |