|
|
|
|
|
| Maharjan, Keshav Lall; Joshi, Niraj Prakash. |
| For the purpose of this study, sample was selected through stratified random sampling from Baitadi district, which falls in rural Far-western Hills of Nepal. Both income and consumption measures of poverty revealed that problem of poverty is more severe in Melauli, which is relatively remote village devoid of transportation, communication, market, and other developmental services. Education, occupation, gender of household head, and family size are found to be the most important factors that affect income-poverty as well as consumption-poverty (food insecurity). Caste and landholding size has a significant effect on food insecurity. Households with illiterate head, head engaged in laboring, female-head, larger family size, Occupational Caste household, and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Income-poverty; Consumption-poverty; Baitadi district; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51462 |
| |
|
|
| Maharjan, Keshav Lall; Khatri-Chhetri, Arun. |
| One of the main development goals of Nepal is to reduce the number of chronically undernourished people all over the country by half by the year 2015. In consonance to this, this study examines food security and its relationship with socio-economic characteristics among rural households in the remote western mountains of Nepal. Accordingly, the relationship between household's resource endowment and food security status was analyzed based on the calorie requirement for all household members according to their sex and age. The food security measures applied in this paper are Head Count Method, Food Insecurity Gap, and Squared Food Insecurity Gap to capture successively more detailed aspects of the food insecurity status of the household. It was found that... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Calorie; Socio-economic characteristics; Rural households; Nepal; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25624 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
