Migration and Remittance and Their Impacts on Food Security in Nepal

Type Conference Paper - Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting 2014, At Dallas, Texas
Title Migration and Remittance and Their Impacts on Food Security in Nepal
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://www.researchgate.net/publication/261027749_Migration_and_Remittance_and_Their_Impacts_on_Food​_Security_in_Nepal
Abstract
We collected survey data to identify the impact of several explanatory variables on children, adult, and household food security in East Chitwan, Nepal. The polychoric correlation coefficient indicated a high correlation among children, adult, and household food securities. When ordered probit regression model was estimated to identify the magnitude and direction of these pertinent variables, we found that a higher education level, higher proportion of agricultural income and adoption of hybrid rice/maize have a positive effect on food security while age of household head and number of conservation technologies adopted have a negative impact on food security. Results also indicated that remittance-receiving households were more likely to be food secure in the study area.

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