Food insecurity and compound environmental shocks in Nepal: Implications for a changing climate.

ABSTRACT: Food insecurity is a key global health challenge that is likely to be exacerbated by climate change. Though climate change is associated with an increased frequency of extreme weather events, little is known about how multiple environmental shocks in close succession interact to impact household health and well-being. In this paper, we assess how earthquake exposure followed by monsoon rainfall anomalies affect food insecurity in Nepal. We link food security data from the 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey to data on shaking intensity during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake and rainfall anomalies during the 2015 monsoon season. We then exploit spatial variation in exposure to the earthquake and monsoon rainfall anomalies to isolate their independent and compound effects. We find that earth

SUBMITTER: Randell H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8128151 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature