TITLE:
Does Social Parameters and Landholding Size Affect Household Food Security in Rural India?
AUTHORS:
D. J. Nithya, S. Raju, Akshaya Kumar Panda
KEYWORDS:
Family Size, Social Group, Landholding Size, Food Security
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.11,
November
26,
2021
ABSTRACT: Past studies have proved that various factors affect
household food security. This paper presents whether social groups, family size
and landholding sizes are related to food security of the households.
Consumption of food groups as per household recommended requirement is
considered as food security in this paper. Subsample of 315 households from 39
villages of Mathapada Gram Panchayat and 8 villages from Doraguda Gram Panchayat
in Boipariguda block in Koraput district of Odisha state, India were taken for
the study. Results of the study show that social group and family size have
significant effect on the gap between consumption and household food groups and
nutrients requirement, while landholding did not show any effect. Intervention
studies and knowledge on consumption of own production and marketing of excess
produce should be emphasized. Government entitlements should focus on
decreasing the gap between the consumption and household requirement by
increasing the accessibility to foods and making the rural households food
secure.