Food insecurity in Gujarat: A study of two rural populations (original) (raw)
Using data that surveys 1435 households in the tribal area of rural Gujarat known as the Panchmahals-Dahod and a non-tribal sample of 1066 households from Maliya and Jasdan in the Rajkot district of Saurashtra, we find the prevalence of large scale food insecurity with less than 10 percent of the population surveyed found to be food secure all twelve months in a year. A staggering 73.66 percent (Panchmahaals) are found to be food insecure for more than six months in a year. The corresponding figure for Rajkot sample stands at stands at approximately 19 percent. This food insecurity is seen to be roughly consistent across poverty classification categories with similar distributions of food deprivation across both Above Poverty Line (APL) and Below Poverty Line (BPL) households in our sample. Finally the unavailability of food is found to be a seasonal phenomenon with food unavailability peaking over the summer and monsoon and dropping off right before the winter months.
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