Migration and Remittance and Their Impacts on Food Security in Nepal

Abstract

We collected survey data to identify the impact of several explanatory variables on children, adult, and household food security in East Chitwan, Nepal. The polychoric correlation coefficient indicated a high correlation among children, adult, and household food securities. When ordered probit regression model was estimated to identify the magnitude and direction of these pertinent variables, we found that a higher education level, higher proportion of agricultural income and adoption of hybrid rice/maize have a positive effect on food security while age of household head and number of conservation technologies adopted have a negative impact on food security. Results also indicated that remittance-receiving households were more likely to be food secure in the study area.