Navigating Food Security and Nutritional Challenges: Insights from Asia’s Diverse Landscapes

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This book explores the socioeconomic and policy factors shaping food security and nutrition across Asia, addressing challenges rooted in inequality, well-being, and agricultural practices.

Part I examines the connection between well-being and food security, featuring studies from Indonesia, Pakistan, Viet Nam, and India on issues such as nutritional disparities, rural-urban vulnerabilities, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part II focuses on agricultural policies and their influence on nutrition, analyzing India’s dairy sector, the drivers of organic food consumption in Viet Nam, and the role of pulses in India’s food security.

Providing empirical insights from diverse settings, this book highlights structural inequalities in food access and offers policy recommendations for building sustainable, equitable nutrition systems in Asia and beyond.

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• IntroductionRaja Rajendra Timilsina, Sakshi Pandey, Dil B. Rahut, and KE Seetha Ram
• Part I: Intersecting Dimensions of Food Security, Well-Being, and Inequality Part I SummaryYijing Lian and Sakshi Pandey
• 1. Does Greater Subjective Well-Being Lead to Improved Food and Nutrition Security or Vice Versa?: Analysis from the Indonesian Family Life SurveyIsnawati Hidayah, Flaviana Palmisano, and J. C. Kiefte-de JongDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/VHBF9521
• 2. Growing Urban Vulnerabilities: Comparative Rural–Urban Food Security Among Pakistan’s Casual Wage Workers amid Food Price HikesKhadija AnjumDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/CJPR6967
• 3. Analyzing Barriers to Adequate Dairy Consumption in Indian Households: A Comparative Analysis Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (2005–2012)Sakshi PandeyDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/OONB3797
• 4. Rural and Semi-Urban Disparities in Household Food Security amid the Pandemic: Evidence from the Vietnamese Mekong DeltaHiep N. Le, Kien V. Nguyen, and Hai PhungDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/RTLT9271
• Part II: The Role of Agriculture Policies in Shaping Nutritional Choices and Outcomes Part II SummaryYijing Lian and Sakshi Pandey
• 5. Dairy Development and Nutritional Outcomes of Children: Evidence from IndiaGopi Sankar G. and Soumya PalDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/MWGB8601
• 6. Factors Affecting the Organic Food Consumption Behavior of the Residents in Hung Yen Province, Viet NamPhong Quoc NguyenDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/PXVN2136
• 7. Importance of Pulses in Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security in IndiaJaya JumraniDOI: https://doi.org/10.56506/LPJI5844