Babu S C, Thirumaran S, Mohanam T C
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC 20036-3006.
Soc Sci Med. 1993 Dec;37(11):1313-9. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(93)90161-v.
This paper analyzes changes in the nutrients intake, intra-household allocation and gender bias due to changes in agricultural productivity among four groups of rural households over six different seasons. The study utilizes household survey data collected from a village in Tamil Nadu, India. While the results are consistent with earlier findings that seasonality influences variation in the intake of nutrients, it is shown that subsistence agricultural households recover faster from poor crop yields than market oriented agricultural households in terms of nutrient intake. Agricultural labour households consumed lowest quantities of energy and protein in all the seasons with the highest degree of gender bias. The gender bias is more in terms of protein intake compared to energy intake for all the households. The non-agricultural households are least affected due to variability in crop yields and seasonality. While nutritional intake of the rural households is positively correlated with crop yields, the variations in yields worsen the gender bias. It is argued that reducing dependency of rural households on agriculture may reduce malnutrition and the gender bias associated with it.
本文分析了六个不同季节里四组农村家庭因农业生产力变化而导致的营养摄入、家庭内部分配及性别偏见的变化情况。该研究采用了从印度泰米尔纳德邦一个村庄收集的家庭调查数据。虽然研究结果与早期发现一致，即季节性会影响营养摄入的变化，但研究表明，就营养摄入而言，自给型农业家庭比市场导向型农业家庭能更快地从歉收中恢复过来。农业劳动力家庭在所有季节中消耗的能量和蛋白质数量最少，且性别偏见程度最高。与能量摄入相比，所有家庭在蛋白质摄入方面的性别偏见更大。非农业家庭受作物产量变化和季节性的影响最小。虽然农村家庭的营养摄入与作物产量呈正相关，但产量的变化会加剧性别偏见。有人认为，减少农村家庭对农业的依赖可能会减少营养不良及其相关的性别偏见。
