Patterns and determinants of nutrition and food security in the rural-urban interface

城乡结合部营养和粮食安全的模式和决定因素

• 批准号: 289781593
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/289781593?language=en
• 关键词: Patterns; determinants; nutrition; food; security

India poses a puzzle of decline or slow improvement in nutrition and food security despite rapid economic growth. This puzzle is poorly understood and is clouded by inadequate data. There is a need for comprehensive household survey work that covers both consumption and anthropometric indicators to provide a sound basis for the measurement of food insecurity and undernutrition, and to provide a basis for robust analysis of their determinants and implications. The proposed work will directly address this need. The Indian income economic growth/undernutrition puzzle has not been studied explicitly in the urban-rural interface, where changes in incomes and lifestyles, and thus both consumptions needs and opportunities, are taking place at a particularly rapid pace. This project will study the prevalence of undernutrition and food insecurity in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore using a detailed, spatially explicit household survey of consumption and anthropometric data combined with other social and demographic indicators.While generating insights into the patterns and determinants of food security and undernutrition in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, we will focus three specific and interrelated topics. First, we will study the nutrition of women and the influence of mothers on nutritional outcomes. Second, we will study how disruptions in lifestyles and diets affect nutrition and food security. Third, we will explore how the specialization and commercialization of household food production varies over space and time in the rural-urban interface, and address the hypothesis that specialisation and commercialisation can lead to improvements in nutritional status by increasing incomes. Our work will be based on standard micro-econometric techniques for the analysis of cross-sectional (and later panel) household data. We will also draw on recent developments in non-parametric estimation and inference and in the estimation of threshold models. In addition, we will employ spatial econometric methods to analyse spatial patterns and spillovers in nutrition and food security and the factors that affect them.

尽管经济快速增长，但印度的营养和食品安全状况仍在下降或缓慢改善。人们对这个谜题知之甚少，而且由于数据不足而蒙上了阴影。有必要开展全面的家庭调查工作，涵盖消费和人体测量指标，为衡量粮食不安全和营养不足提供坚实的基础，并为对其决定因素和影响进行有力分析提供基础。拟议的工作将直接解决这一需要。印度收入经济增长/营养不良的难题还没有在城乡结合部得到明确的研究，在那里，收入和生活方式的变化，因此消费需求和机会都在以特别快的速度发生。该项目将研究班加罗尔城乡结合部营养不良和粮食不安全的普遍情况，采用详细的、空间明确的家庭消费调查和人体测量数据，并结合其他社会和人口指标。在深入了解班加罗尔城乡结合部粮食安全和营养不良的模式和决定因素的同时，我们将重点关注三个具体且相互关联的主题。首先，我们将研究妇女的营养状况以及母亲对营养结果的影响。其次，我们将研究生活方式和饮食的变化如何影响营养和粮食安全。第三，我们将探讨家庭食品生产的专业化和商业化在城乡结合部是如何随时间和空间变化的，并解决专业化和商业化可以通过增加收入来改善营养状况的假设。我们的工作将基于标准的微观计量经济学技术，用于分析横截面（和后来的面板）家庭数据。我们还将借鉴非参数估计和推理以及阈值模型估计的最新发展。此外，我们将采用空间计量经济学方法分析营养和粮食安全的空间格局和溢出效应及其影响因素。