01198pab a2200157 454500 180718b2001 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Rajuladevi, A.K. Food poverty and consumption among landless labour households 2001 p.2656-664 14 Jul In this study of food insecurity among India's poor, the food intake of landless agricultural labour households was measured twice, to find variations between slack and peak seasons. Within and between wet and dry villages the `caste' differences in food intake between backward castes (BCs) and scheduled castes (SCs) were examined. Findings showed that the majority of sample households survived on cereals, and had only one main meal per day, a stark indicator of food insecurity. Female-headed households were the most adversely affected `poverty group' in the study villages irrespective of caste. The landless peoples' lack of basic needs (clothing, shelter, household equipment, and health care) revealed much more of their utter destitution than conventional food intake. - Reproduced Food supply Economic and Political Weekly 49181 49181 49181 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 36, Issue no: 28 AR49609 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR