Bio:

Vijayalaxmi Khed works with the International Maize and Wheat Center (CIMMYT) as Associate Scientist in Sustainable Agri-Food System (SAS) program based in the ICRISAT campus, Hyderabad, India. She obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India, and had a DAAD-sponsored academic exchange at the University of Göttingen, Germany. She was an awardee of national-level research scholarships from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for pursuing her Master's and Ph.D. degrees. She conducted her Ph. D. research on the impact of climate change on crop production and household food consumption in India. Her major research interests include technology adoption, impact assessment, gender inclusion, and food security. Currently, she is working on gender dimensions of norms, caste, decision-making, workload, and food security.

Project summary:

The increased involvement of women in agriculture, commonly termed as Feminization of Agriculture (FoA), has prompted rural women to spend long hours for work outside the home (productive work). Because there is no change in reproductive responsibilities like cooking, care provision, etc., they are left with less leisure time, resulting in "time poverty." Not many have addressed this issue, and it is unclear how much women's long work hours help improve individual and household food security. The proposed study under the IMMANA fellowship program aims at understanding the relationship between time poverty and food security through empirical analysis of data collected from rural India.