Contested food, conflicting policies: Health and development in tribal communities in India

-, Vandana and Bhattacharya, Rajesh (2022) Contested food, conflicting policies: Health and development in tribal communities in India. Third World Quarterly, 44 (1). pp. 190-210. ISSN 0143-6597

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Abstract

This paper explores the deep connections between experiences of health and changes in the local ecology, farming, and food consumption practices among tribal people in Odisha, a state in India. The role of governmental and market actors in initiating and reinforcing these changes is analysed in a political ecology framework using a relational understanding of ‘place’. It allows us to think of changing health outcomes and perceptions in communities as they simultaneously experience changes in access to forest resources and farming practices, and consequent dietary changes. Our paper suggests that with the creation of new social and power relations and ecological materialities, nutritional insecurities are produced or sustained, even as access to formal healthcare improves. We show how the plethora of development policies often work against each other and accentuate health vulnerabilities, even as they seek to create incomes and ensure food availability

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Political Ecology | Place | Malnutrition | Devlopment | Tribal | India
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal Global Business School
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 29 Nov 2022 04:19
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2023 04:57
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2141222
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/4863

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