Cascading Vulnerabilities: Food Insecurity Among Women in Disaster-Prone Areas in India (original) (raw)

The relationship between food insecurity and gender inequality is well acknowledged in food security policy and programme discourse. Studies also indicate that the presence of continual shocks and stresses (political, social, environmental, etc.) have significant negative implications on food security, especially for women and in their households. In this regard, a relevant question is how do shocks and stresses in gender-asymmetrical spaces affect food security and what is the nature and form of the food insecurity experienced by vulnerable women. While there is ample documentation that relates food insecurity with gender or with shocks and stresses separately, explorative study knitting together the three aspects—namely food insecurity, shocks/stresses and gender inequality, at the micro-level for context-specific understanding is limited.

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