Agricultural production and children's diets: evidence from rural Ethiopia

We study the relationship between pre‐school children's food consumption and household agricultural production. Using a large household survey from rural Ethiopia, we find that increasing household production diversity leads to considerable improvements in children's dietary diversity. How...

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Published in:Agricultural economics 2017-07, Vol.48 (4), p.469-480
Main Authors: Hirvonen, Kalle, Hoddinott, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural household models
Agricultural production
Child dietary diversity
Children
Children & youth
Count data
D12
Diet
Food consumption
Food markets
Households
Integration
Nutrition
O12
Q12
Q18
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Summary:We study the relationship between pre‐school children's food consumption and household agricultural production. Using a large household survey from rural Ethiopia, we find that increasing household production diversity leads to considerable improvements in children's dietary diversity. However, we also document how this nonseparability of consumption and production does not hold for households that have access to food markets. These findings imply that nutrition‐sensitive agricultural interventions that push for market integration are likely to be more effective in reducing under‐nutrition than those promoting production diversity.
ISSN:0169-5150
1574-0862
DOI:10.1111/agec.12348