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Food Security and Translocal Livelihoods in High Mountains: Evidence from Ladakh, India.
Mountain Research & Development
Short Title: Mountain Research & Development
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2018/11//
Pages: 310 - 322
Sources ID: 93426
Notes: Accession Number: 134254169; Dame, Juliane 1; Affiliations: 1: Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Center for the Environment/South Asia Institute, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 96115 Heidelberg, Germany; Issue Info: Nov2018, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p310; Thesaurus Term: Food supply; Thesaurus Term: Food consumption; Thesaurus Term: Food production; Thesaurus Term: Sustainable development; Subject Term: Food security; Author-Supplied Keyword: agrarian change; Author-Supplied Keyword: Himalayas; Author-Supplied Keyword: livelihood diversification; Author-Supplied Keyword: migration; Author-Supplied Keyword: translocality; NAICS/Industry Codes: 926110 Administration of General Economic Programs; Number of Pages: 13p; Document Type: ArticleAccession Number: 134254169; Dame, Juliane 1; Affiliations: 1: Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Center for the Environment/South Asia Institute, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 96115 Heidelberg, Germany; Issue Info: Nov2018, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p310; Thesaurus Term: Food supply; Thesaurus Term: Food consumption; Thesaurus Term: Food production; Thesaurus Term: Sustainable development; Subject Term: Food security; Author-Supplied Keyword: agrarian change; Author-Supplied Keyword: Himalayas; Author-Supplied Keyword: livelihood diversification; Author-Supplied Keyword: migration; Author-Supplied Keyword: translocality; NAICS/Industry Codes: 926110 Administration of General Economic Programs; Number of Pages: 13p; Document Type: ArticleAccession Number: 134254169; Dame, Juliane 1; Affiliations: 1: Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Center for the Environment/South Asia Institute, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 96115 Heidelberg, Germany; Issue Info: Nov2018, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p310; Thesaurus Term: Food supply; Thesaurus Term: Food consumption; Thesaurus Term: Food production; Thesaurus Term: Sustainable development; Subject Term: Food security; Author-Supplied Keyword: agrarian change; Author-Supplied Keyword: Himalayas; Author-Supplied Keyword: livelihood diversification; Author-Supplied Keyword: migration; Author-Supplied Keyword: translocality; NAICS/Industry Codes: 926110 Administration of General Economic Programs; Number of Pages: 13p; Document Type: Article
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Reducing food insecurity is crucial to sustainable development in mountain regions. Case studies on complex food systems in these areas facilitate depiction of current trends and challenges and provide detailed information to policymakers. Based on empirical research in Ladakh in the Indian Trans-Himalaya, this study assesses livelihood dynamics in the context of rapid socioeconomic changes and aims to show how diverse spatial and temporal patterns of mobility shape strategies of the mountain population. The results exhibit translocal livelihood diversification as an emerging reality. The consequences are a reduction in land-based food production and an increased reliance on markets and government food subsidies. This shift to a supply-oriented food system implies gender- and intergenerational-biased challenges, such as growing socioeconomic disparities, new dependencies, and an erosion of social institutions in the rural communities. Moving beyond the focus on land-based food production, this article sheds light on the interaction between agriculture, mobility, markets, and supplies, and highlights the need for cross-sectoral policy approaches to meet the challenge of food insecurity in mountains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]