Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program

This study uses the panel data of a randomized experiment from the Mexican PROGRESA program to evaluate the impact of drought on total calorie availability and the mitigating effects of PROGRESA on food consumption in periods of drought. Drought reduced total expenditures and total food expenditures...

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Main Author:	Hou, Xiaohui
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Health Production I120 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5855

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spelling	okr-10986-58552021-04-23T14:02:23Z Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Hou, Xiaohui Health Production I120 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Climate Natural Disasters Global Warming Q540 This study uses the panel data of a randomized experiment from the Mexican PROGRESA program to evaluate the impact of drought on total calorie availability and the mitigating effects of PROGRESA on food consumption in periods of drought. Drought reduced total expenditures and total food expenditures but increased the total availability of calories. This paradox can be explained by the impact of drought on the composition of calories; that is, it reduced the consumption of expensive calories in such foods as vegetables, fruits, and animal products but increased calories consumed from cheaper sources, such as grains. This study finds that PROGRESA can completely mitigate the negative effects of drought on calorie availability from vegetables, fruits, and other sources. However, PROGRESA cannot mitigate the impact of drought on calories available from grains. The analysis also shows that, during drought, households who increase their consumption of grains get them mainly from purchased sources rather than from home production. In these circumstances, decreased total expenditures and increased purchases of grains suggest that grains are inferior goods in rural Mexico. The Engel curve analysis further proves that grains are inferior goods. 2012-03-30T07:34:52Z 2012-03-30T07:34:52Z 2010 Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change 00130079 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5855 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Mexico
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description	This study uses the panel data of a randomized experiment from the Mexican PROGRESA program to evaluate the impact of drought on total calorie availability and the mitigating effects of PROGRESA on food consumption in periods of drought. Drought reduced total expenditures and total food expenditures but increased the total availability of calories. This paradox can be explained by the impact of drought on the composition of calories; that is, it reduced the consumption of expensive calories in such foods as vegetables, fruits, and animal products but increased calories consumed from cheaper sources, such as grains. This study finds that PROGRESA can completely mitigate the negative effects of drought on calorie availability from vegetables, fruits, and other sources. However, PROGRESA cannot mitigate the impact of drought on calories available from grains. The analysis also shows that, during drought, households who increase their consumption of grains get them mainly from purchased sources rather than from home production. In these circumstances, decreased total expenditures and increased purchases of grains suggest that grains are inferior goods in rural Mexico. The Engel curve analysis further proves that grains are inferior goods.
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title	Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_short	Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_full	Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_fullStr	Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_full_unstemmed	Can Drought Increase Total Calorie Availability? The Impact of Drought on Food Consumption and the Mitigating Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program
title_sort	can drought increase total calorie availability? the impact of drought on food consumption and the mitigating effects of a conditional cash transfer program
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