Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India

Agriculture-nutrition linkages in developing countries remain complex and continue evolving as weather and market risks intensify due to climate change and other geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. Knowledge gaps remain regarding the exact interrelationship among these dimensions of agriculture-...

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Autores principales: Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Saroj, Sunil, Kumar, Anjani
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140325
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author Takeshima, Hiroyuki
Saroj, Sunil
Kumar, Anjani
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description Agriculture-nutrition linkages in developing countries remain complex and continue evolving as weather and market risks intensify due to climate change and other geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. Knowledge gaps remain regarding the exact interrelationship among these dimensions of agriculture-nutrition linkages. This study aimed to partly fill this knowledge gap by assessing how the associations between home production of various food groups and household/individual level nutritional outcomes are affected by weather anomalies and price risks of these food groups in the market, using panel data from India. Our results indicate that, generally, the associations between home production and nutritional outcomes are greater under more normal weather, with rainfall and temperature during the production season being closer to the historical median, potentially because of greater productivity realized and sufficient harvest that can be consumed throughout the year. The associations are also greater when households face greater market price fluctuations of food commodities conditional on the distance to the market, potentially because such price risks lead to reduced food purchases from the market. These effects generally hold not only during the average month but also during the lean month, indicating robustness against seasonality. These results also hold more consistently in remote areas than in areas closer to the market. Overall, our results suggest that efforts to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture in developing countries should also consider evolving patterns of weather risks and agrifood market price risks to improve their effectiveness.
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spelling CGSpace1403252025-12-02T21:03:03Z Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India Takeshima, Hiroyuki Saroj, Sunil Kumar, Anjani data agriculture markets nutrition weather risk prices seasonality Agriculture-nutrition linkages in developing countries remain complex and continue evolving as weather and market risks intensify due to climate change and other geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. Knowledge gaps remain regarding the exact interrelationship among these dimensions of agriculture-nutrition linkages. This study aimed to partly fill this knowledge gap by assessing how the associations between home production of various food groups and household/individual level nutritional outcomes are affected by weather anomalies and price risks of these food groups in the market, using panel data from India. Our results indicate that, generally, the associations between home production and nutritional outcomes are greater under more normal weather, with rainfall and temperature during the production season being closer to the historical median, potentially because of greater productivity realized and sufficient harvest that can be consumed throughout the year. The associations are also greater when households face greater market price fluctuations of food commodities conditional on the distance to the market, potentially because such price risks lead to reduced food purchases from the market. These effects generally hold not only during the average month but also during the lean month, indicating robustness against seasonality. These results also hold more consistently in remote areas than in areas closer to the market. Overall, our results suggest that efforts to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture in developing countries should also consider evolving patterns of weather risks and agrifood market price risks to improve their effectiveness. 2023-01-25 2024-03-14T12:09:19Z 2024-03-14T12:09:19Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140325 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2018.01.002 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12571 https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0000 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Saroj, Sunil; and Kumar, Anjani. 2023. Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2167. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136557.
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weather
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seasonality
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Kumar, Anjani
Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
title Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
title_full Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
title_fullStr Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
title_full_unstemmed Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
title_short Effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture-nutrition linkage: Micro-level insights from India
title_sort effects of weather and food market risks on household agriculture nutrition linkage micro level insights from india
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markets
nutrition
weather
risk
prices
seasonality
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