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

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dc.creatorGartaula, Hom Nath
dc.creatorAtreya, Kishor
dc.creatorKattel, Kanchan
dc.creatorRahut, Dil Bahadur
dc.date2024-04-05
dc.date2024-12-19T12:53:03Z
dc.date2024-12-19T12:53:03Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T04:07:37Z
dc.descriptionFood 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, social, economic, and cultural factors. The influence of the amount of remittances, land abandonment, and women confined to the house by household chores are some factors that policy makers should consider seriously in designing gender-sensitive nutrition policies. The expansion of women’s agency contributes to enhancing dietary diversity and specifically women’s dietary diversity at the household level; however, how these factors determine an individual’s dietary diversity depends on intrahousehold dynamics and relations.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/163819
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/22404
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceGartaula, Hom Nath; Atreya, Kishor; Kattel, Kanchan and Rahut, Dil Bahadur. 2024. Factors influencing household and women's dietary diversity in migrant households in central Nepal. PLoS ONE, Volume 19 no. 4 p. e0298022
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectdietary diversity
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectwomen's participation
dc.subjectwomen's empowerment
dc.subjectmigrants
dc.titleFactors influencing household and women's dietary diversity in migrant households in central Nepal
dc.typeJournal Article

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