Factors influencing household and women's dietary diversity in migrant households in central Nepal.

ABSTRACT: Food security and dietary diversity, defined as providing either physical (availability) or economic (accessibility) access to food, are linked with access to and control over productive resources and is a highly-gendered phenomenon. In Nepal, labor out-migration has increased household income and may have increased people's ability to access diverse food either by increasing investment in agriculture or purchasing various food items from the market. However, the relationship between household dietary improvement and labor out-migration is complex. Drawing on a survey of 1,053 migrant households in three agroecological regions of Nepal, this paper disentangles this complex phenomenon by showing how household dietary diversity and women's dietary diversity are influenced by biophysical, soc

SUBMITTER: Gartaula HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10997064 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature