COVID-19 and women's nutrition security: panel data evidence from rural India.
COVID-19 and women's nutrition security: panel data evidence from rural India.
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DOI：
10.1007/s40888-021-00233-9
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发表时间：
2022
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通讯作者：
Pingali P
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作者：
Gupta S;Seth P;Abraham M;Pingali P
为了应对新冠肺炎疫情，印度在全国范围内实施了严格的封锁。尽管食品价值链和相关活动免于封锁，但食品获取和供应受到了广泛干扰。使用两个面板数据集，我们在北方邦(Maharajganj)、比哈尔邦(Munger)和奥迪萨(Kandhamal和Kalahandi)这四个经济落后的地区，从国家、邦和地区各级的家庭食品供应和妇女饮食多样性方面区分了大流行对副食品和主食的影响。原始和次要数据都表明，与2019年5月相比，2020年5月家庭食品支出和女性饮食多样性有所下降，特别是肉类、鸡蛋、蔬菜和水果等副食品。尽管特殊的PDS、直接利益转移和Aanganwadis口粮的口粮分别达到了调查家庭的80%、50%和30%，但仍出现了这种情况。虽然到2020年6月，国家和州一级的支出恢复到封锁前的水平，但区一级的支出没有恢复。我们的发现有助于提供越来越多的证据，表明女性在经济冲击、以主食为重点的安全网计划的影响以及市场对各种营养食品的获取和可获得性的限制方面具有不成比例的脆弱性。这篇论文提出了PDS多样化的政策改革的理由，包括营养丰富的食品和市场改革，以消除供给侧的瓶颈，并扩大健康食品获取的直接利益转移。我们还强调促进两性平等的安全网及其扩大复盖面对改善家庭内营养不良状况的重要性。
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, India implemented a stringent nationwide lockdown. Although food value chains and allied activities were exempted from the lockdown, there were widespread disruptions in food access and availability. Using two panel-datasets, we distinguish the pandemic's impact on non-staples versus staples in relation to household food availability and women’s diet diversity at the national, state, and district levels in four economically backward districts of Uttar Pradesh (Maharajganj), Bihar (Munger), and Odisha (Kandhamal and Kalahandi). Both the primary and secondary data indicate a decline in household food expenditures and women’s dietary diversity in May 2020 compared to May 2019, particularly for non-staples like meats, eggs, vegetables and fruits. This occurred despite special PDS, direct benefit transfer, and ration from aanganwadis rations reaching 80%, 50%, and 30% of surveyed households, respectively. While national and state-level expenditures recovered to the pre-lockdown levels by June 2020, the district-level expenditures did not recover. Our findings contribute to the growing body of evidence of women's disproportionate vulnerability to economic shocks, the impact of a staple grain focused safety net program, and restricted markets on the access and availability of diverse nutritious foods. This paper makes a case for policy reforms towards PDS diversification to include nutrition-rich foods and market reforms to remove supply-side bottlenecks and expansion of direct benefit transfers for healthy food access. We also highlight the importance of gender-responsive safety nets and their increased coverage for improving intrahousehold nutritional disadvantages.
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影响因子：
8.1
作者：
Muhammad A;D'Souza A;Meade B;Micha R;Mozaffarian D
通讯作者：
Mozaffarian D
DOI：
10.1007/s41027-020-00261-2
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
The Indian journal of labour economics : the quarterly journal of the Indian Society of Labour Economics
影响因子：
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作者：
Deshpande A
通讯作者：
Deshpande A
影响因子：
6.9
作者：
Ceballos, Francisco;Kannan, Samyuktha;Kramer, Berber
通讯作者：
Kramer, Berber
影响因子：
6.7
作者：
Harris, Jody;Depenbusch, Lutz;Ramasamy, Srinivasan
通讯作者：
Ramasamy, Srinivasan
影响因子：
4.2
作者：
Mahajan, Kanika;Tomar, Shekhar
通讯作者：
Tomar, Shekhar