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Nutrition Transition and Changing Food Preferences in India
Journal of Agricultural Economics ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-02-27 , DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12322
Cherry Law , Iain Fraser , Matloob Piracha

We present empirical evidence on how changes in food preferences have contributed to nutrition transition, where the dietary pattern of households shifts away from traditional staples. Using household‐level time series cross‐section survey data for India, we estimate time varying demand elasticities, revealing evidence of the declining importance of cereals in Indian household diets. The estimates show that Indian demand for cereals has become more income inelastic and price elastic. We also find that cereals are a substitute rather than a complement to animal products in household diets. Since changes in elasticities can only be attributed to variation in utility parameters, this indicates that cereals are losing favour with Indian households. These findings have implications for Indian food policy design and implementation.

中文翻译:

印度的营养过渡和不断变化的食物偏好

我们提供了有关食物偏好变化如何促进营养过渡的经验证据,在这种情况下,家庭的饮食模式已从传统的主食转向。使用印度家庭水平时间序列横截面调查数据,我们估算了随时间变化的需求弹性,揭示了谷物在印度家庭饮食中重要性下降的证据。估计数字表明,印度对谷物的需求变得更加缺乏收入和价格弹性。我们还发现,谷物在家庭饮食中是替代动物产品而不是补充动物产品的。由于弹性的变化只能归因于效用参数的变化,这表明谷物正在失去印度家庭的青睐。这些发现对印度食品政策的设计和实施具有重要意义。
更新日期:2019-02-27
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