TY  - SER
AU  - Anand, Shriya 
AU  - Jagadeesh, Keerthana 
AU  -  Adelina, Charrlotte
AU  - Koduganti, Jyothi 
TI  - Urban food insecurity and its determinants: a baseline study of Bengaluru
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - Bengaluru,
KW  - food policy
KW  -  food security
KW  -  India
KW  -  urban food system
KW  -  urban poverty,
KW  - experiential metrics
N2  - There is an increasing need to study urban food security in the global South. This is because of the monetization of food in urban areas and compounding vulnerability from other deprivations such as lack of access to infrastructure. We assess these claims in this paper, based on a city-wide household survey in Bengaluru (Bangalore) carried out in 2016 that used experiential measures of food security like the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale. We find that income and consumption do not have a clear relationship with food insecurity. However, socioeconomic dimensions like education level and wage type of the household head, and infrastructural dimensions like housing typology, and water connection are strongly related to food security. Through this work, we attempt to establish the baseline evidence on the current status of food security in Bengaluru, to lay the foundation for a future research agenda on urban food security in India
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247819861899
ER  -