Regmi, M. and Paudel, K.P. (2017) Food security in a remittance based economy. Food Security, 9 (4). pp. 831-848.
![[img]](http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
- Published Version
Restricted to ICRISAT researchers only Request a copy |
Abstract
We interviewed 395 subsistence farming households from Chitwan, Nepal in order to identify the impact of remittances and other explanatory variables on child, adult, and household food security. The highest category of the IV - ordered probit regression models with cluster robust standard errors indicated that the food security status of households, adults and children was explained by gender and age of household head, adoption of conservation agricultural technology, number of fruit trees, and income from agricultural and livestock sources. Additional variables affecting only children’s food security were the adoption of hybrid rice or maize varieties and the wage income or salary earned within the district, whereas an additional variable affecting only household and adult food security was the wage income earned outside the district. Households receiving international remittances were more food secure than those households that did not receive such remittances.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Food security, IV- ordered probit, Remittances |
| Author Affiliation: | Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, 400 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-4011, USA |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr T L Gautham |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2018 04:32 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2018 04:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15562 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
