COVID-19 Impact on Household Food Security in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas of Hyderabad, India.

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and on coping-strategies in urban and peri-urban areas of the Hyderabad, India. Household survey data were collected before (October 2018) and during (January 2021) the onset of the pandemic. Results from logistic regression with the standarized Food Insecurity Expecience Scale (FIES) as dependent variable reveal that close to 40% of the households surveyed experienced a deterioration in food security status during the pandemic. In particular, we find that food security is closely related to the sector of employment in which the primary income- earning member of a household is engaged. To mitigate the impact of the pandemic on their food security, our sampled households adopted a variety of consumption-smoothing s

SUBMITTER: Padmaja R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9136225 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature