Migration, Food Security and Development

Chetan Choithani is Assistant Professor in Inequality and Human Development Programme of School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India. The broad disciplinary domain of Chetan's work is development studies. Within this area, his research and teaching interests include migration and urbanization, food and nutrition, livelihoods, gender, and social policy and how they relate to development, particularly in the Indian context. He has published on these issues in peer-reviewed journals including World Development, Gender, Place and Culture, Geographical Research, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Economic and Political Weekly. Chetan has done extensive fieldwork in remote parts of India, and his research uses primary, field-based insights to engage with and inform larger issues of development.

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Photos; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Bridging the Disconnect between Migration and Food Security; 3. Dynamics of Food Insecurity, Migration and Urbanisation in India; 4. The Context of Migration: Bihar and Siwan in Perspective; 5. Connections between Food Safety Nets and Migration; 6. Migration, Remittances, Land and Household Food Security; 7. Opening the Household Box: Migrating Men, Left-Behind Women and Household Food Security; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.