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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ensuring food security in times of Covid-19 -Amita Bhaduri

Ensuring food security in times of Covid-19 -Amita Bhaduri

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published Published on May 15, 2020   modified Modified on May 16, 2020

-IndiaWaterPortal.org

A study conducted in 47 districts indicates that over half of the surveyed households are eating less during lockdown.

The study, ‘Covid-19 induced lockdown - How is hinterland coping’, based on a large survey undertaken by a consortium of civil society organisations undertook a rapid assessment of the impact of series of lockdowns on rural poor households. Of the many coping mechanisms, the most prominent was that over 50 percent of households in rural India have reduced the number of meals, while about 68 percent have reduced the number of food items in the meal ever since the lockdown was imposed.

The assessment focussed on food security, change in expenditure pattern, preparedness for the forthcoming kharif season, drudgery faced by women in the household and asset sales. The collaborating NGOs - Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), BAIF Development Research Foundation (BAIF), Action for Social Advancement (ASA), SATHI-UP, Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), Grameen Sahara and Transforming Rural India Foundation (TRIF) have been active in most of the poverty-stricken belts in the country. The survey covered 5162 households in 47 districts in 12 states - Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

The survey was jointly anchored by Transform Rural India Foundation (TRIF), Delhi and VikasAnvesh Foundation, a Pune based development research centre and methodologically supported by Sambodhi, a Lucknow based research firm. In most of the surveyed villages, a large chunk of migrants are yet to return.

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IndiaWaterPortal.org, 15 May, 2020, https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/ensuring-food-security-times-covid-19


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