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Urbanization and food consumption in India
Bhartendu Pandey1, Meredith Reba2, P K Joshi3,4
1Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. bhartendu.pandey@yale.edu.
Scientific Reports
|October 15, 2020
Summary
Urbanization in India has minimal impact on food consumption quantity and diversity. Income, infrastructure, and social factors significantly influence dietary patterns more than population shifts alone.
Area of Science:
- Agricultural Economics
- Urban Studies
- Sociology
Background:
- Urban living is transforming food demand, with prior studies indicating urban-rural consumption disparities in India.
- A comprehensive scientific understanding of urbanization's impact on food consumption patterns remains limited.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze how urbanization influences the quantity and diversity of food consumption in India.
- To identify key drivers of food consumption changes beyond demographic shifts.
Main Methods:
- Utilized multiple datasets: consumer expenditure surveys, satellite imagery, and census data.
- Employed statistical analysis to examine relationships between urbanization indicators and food consumption.
Main Results:
- Income, not urbanization, primarily drives food consumption quantity variations; urban-rural differences are negligible for most commodities.
- Urbanization's share of the population insignificantly impacts food consumption diversity; infrastructure, market access, working women, and socio-cultural norms are significant.
- All tested covariates of food consumption diversity correlate with urbanization, indicating indirect and multidimensional influences.
Conclusions:
- Urban population growth alone does not explain shifts in Indian food consumption.
- Understanding future food consumption changes requires a multifaceted view of urbanization, extending beyond demographic transitions.
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