POST-DISASTER FOOD HABIT AND DIETARY PATTERN OF  WOMEN OF KHULNA DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH

Tuhin  Roy; Snigdha  Dutta

doi:10.53808/KUS.2017.14.1and2.1628-S

Authors

Tuhin Roy Sociology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh
Snigdha Dutta Sociology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2017.14.1and2.1628-S

Keywords:

Disaster, food habit, dietary patterns, women, south western coastal Bangladesh

Abstract

The aim of this study was to explore the post-disaster food habit and dietary pattern of the women in south western coastal Bangladesh. The Primary data were collected using an interview schedule from a sample of 196 women aged 18-49 years drawn from 400 women during AugustSeptember, 2015 at Jaliakhali and Channirchak villages of Kamarkhola of Dacope upazila under Khulna district. They had been living in Khulna for the last seven years and were already affected by various disasters. These two villages are the most disaster affected areas in Dacope because the villages are situated beside the bank of the river Pashur. Before the disaster, the common food habit of those women were fish, pulse and sometimes they also ate various types of meat and fruits. But in post-disaster period, they cannot get proper dietary intake because most of the people in these areas are farmers and for the natural disaster the ponds and cultivable lands are overflowed. So, they cannot cultivate their lands to meet their proper dietary intake. For this reason, food crises increase tremendously. After the disaster, they generally eat rice, ata, potato, vegetables, kolmishak, kochushak, shapla and some fish. Basically, women are more vulnerable to disasters than men through their socially conducted roles and responsibilities and their relatively poorer and more economically vulnerable position especially in the developing countries like Bangladesh. Among 196 respondents, the majority retorted that their food quality had deteriorated in post-disaster period.

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