Migration, Food Security and Development
Insights from Rural India

By analyzing migration-food security linkages, this book engages with the larger process of uneven development in India.

Chetan Choithani (Author)

9781108840378, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 May 2023

380 pages
23.6 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.57 kg

This book examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in influencing food access among rural households. Migration forms a key component of livelihoods for an increasing number of rural households in many developing countries. Importantly, there is now a growing consensus among academics and policymakers on the potential positive effects of migration in promoting human development. Concurrently, the significance of food security as an important development objective has grown tremendously, and the Sustainable Development Goals agenda envisages eliminating all forms of malnutrition. However, the academic and policy discussions on these two issues have largely proceeded in silos, with little attention devoted to the relationship they bear with each other. Using the conceptual frameworks of 'entitlements' and 'sustainable livelihoods', this book seeks to fill this gap in the context of India - a country with the most food-insecure people in the world and where migration is integral to rural livelihoods.

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
List of Photos
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Bridging the Disconnect between Migration and Food Security
3. Dynamics of Food Insecurity, Migration and Urbanisation in India
4. The Context of Migration: Bihar and Siwan in Perspective
5. Connections between Food Safety Nets and Migration
6. Migration, Remittances, Land and Household Food Security
7. Opening the Household Box: Migrating Men, Left-Behind Women and Household Food Security
8. Conclusion
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Public finance [KFFD]