Food Security Assessment at Household Level in Rudraprayag District of Uttarakhand

Abstract

Priyanka Tyagi and Ravindra K. Pande

Food Security Assessment is a very important component to assess the level of preparedness of a community to deal with fore coming disaster as communities become vulnerable to meet their alimentary needs. The Study area faces natural disasters very frequently and villages are remotely located. Hence the villages get cut off for days and they have to deal with it. This paper presents a food security assessment at household level in 20 villages of Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand. Food security assessment has been classified into three categories i.e. daily, weekly and monthly. With the help of this study an account of households is done which needs immediate assistance if any disaster strikes. This is an approach through which effective disaster management is done by assisting the one who needs it first

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