A Study on Food Consumption in India

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26450304
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Agricultural science in management and economy
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	SHUTO Hisato 筑波大学, 生命環境系, 准教授 (40292792)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords	インド / 食料消費 / 栄養摂取 / 現物移転 / 移転政策 / 年齢効果 / 公的補助 / 構造変化 / 消費分析
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The food consumption in India has been diversified as the recent drastic growth in meat demand or the governments rationed grain consumption during the 2000s, the period when the total cereal or rice/wheat demand did not increase. The household survey data analysis during around 20 years shows the relative contribution of middle aged female in comparison with male to the household total or cereal based calorie intake has been improved. And the study examines that the beneficiaries of public distributed food grain have significantly larger cereal-based calorie intake than their counterfactuals in the regions where their public distribution enlarged drastically in 2000s.