Does agricultural aid reduce child stunting?

Mary, Sébastien; Shaw, Kelsey; Colen, Liesbeth; Paloma, Sergio Gómez y

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104951

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“…Often, this joint program has the objective of strengthening the capacities of the government to monitor and fight against malnutrition and support local interventions aimed at raising public awareness, strengthening capacities and mechanisms to combat insecurity, improve household food sources, and reduce malnutrition (Boliko, 2019;Skaf et al, 2019;Béné, 2020). Action such as introducing activities to increase resilience and nutrition security in some of these vulnerable regions was introduced and showed successful results; such action has had a significant impact, changing the status of households considerably through an increase in the standard of living of families through a reduction in malnutrition (Osabohien et al, 2019;Mary et al, 2020;Lawali et al, 2021).…”

Section: Vulnerability and Reduction Of Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Management of Malnutrition Using Local Foods: A Sustainable Initiative for Developing Countries

Amadou

Lawali

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Malnutrition is one of the major challenges the developing world is currently facing, whether it is caused by climate change, terrorism and conflict, or demographic shifts. Poverty is the main cause of malnutrition in this part of the world, and no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty to reduce malnutrition. Reducing household vulnerability and increasing household resilience is the pathway to sustainable malnutrition management. Malnutrition has been a major threat to the health and development of children in developing countries, presenting as high levels of micronutrient deficiencies, stunting, and global acute malnutrition. The rates of malnutrition of all forms are above the thresholds accepted by the WHO in some regions. To this end, the resilience program on achieving nutrition in a developing country through at-home learning activities for nutritional rehabilitation and dietary promotion (known as FARN) reported, in this case, successful results from both statements from beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries on the reduction and management of malnutrition in their health centers. FARN activity encourages the consumption of locally available foods not only to eradicate malnutrition but also to protect the ecosystem and sustainable nutrition security. This is much like the saying, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” to the vulnerable people; parents' knowledge of their child's nutritional status and the use of local-based foods diets showed improvement, which is proof of the impact of the resilience program. It can be concluded that the resilience program through its activities at the level of the selected community significantly affected the factors and degree of persistence of malnutrition and the level of resilience of the populations. Thus, the FARN program showed resounding success in its ability to promote sustainable malnutrition management.

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Section: Vulnerability and Reduction Of Malnutritionmentioning

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Smart Management of Malnutrition Using Local Foods: A Sustainable Initiative for Developing Countries

Amadou

Lawali

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…However, this hypothesis must be further tested on a wider array of countries with the inclusion of least developed and low-income economies. Strong effects of foreign aid on agriculture development have been revealed previously [36,37], but few studies have differentiated much between the short-term and long-term effects of the two variables. We also did not reveal substantial differences between AGR-NODA links in the short-term and long-term perspectives.…”

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“…However, there is also a discrepancy with the understanding of foreign aid's effects on agricultural production taking into account a great deal of heterogeneity among developing countries. For instance, Kaya et al [36] reported a significant positive relationship between aid and growth of agricultural production and Mary et al [37] demonstrated how agriculture aid inflows contributed to the development of various spheres related to agriculture, including water management, education and research, and agricultural policies and services, while Philip [38] and Ijaiya and Ijaiya [39] expressed a rather pessimistic view that total aid might be not effective for poverty alleviation and agriculture development. As a form of government-to-government subsidy, aid is not always efficiently translated into transfers of resources to poor people, particularly taking into account the undiversified institutional structure of the economy and ineffective public governance in many developing countries [40].…”

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The Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows on Agriculture Development and Poverty Reduction: Panel Data Analysis for Developing Countries

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Combating poverty through the development of agricultural production and providing rural people with new employment and income opportunities in agriculture has become one of the major concerns of both policymakers and scholars worldwide. In many developing countries, government policies have failed to achieve the desired poverty alleviation goals due to the lack of financial resources. Despite that, few comprehensive studies have so far unambiguously identified the effects of the exogenous factor of capital inflows on the level of poverty and agriculture development. In this paper, the authors attempt to shed light on the poverty–agriculture–capital trilemma pattern by revealing the impacts of six types of foreign capital inflows on the parameters of poverty reduction and agriculture development. The panel unit root test and pool mean group estimation techniques were employed for observing the short-term and long-term linkages between dependent and explanatory variables across fourteen developing economies of Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. It was revealed that poverty reduction could be positively affected by an increase in the values of agricultural exports, foreign direct investment, foreign development assistance, and remittances received from migrant workers. The level of agriculture could be improved by deeper integration of developing economies to global food supply chains as either suppliers or consumers of food and agricultural products.

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“…Aid interventions, for the most part, are delivered in the form of projects that respond to specific needs such as construction or improvement of roads or healthcare facilities, provision of anti‐malaria mosquito nets, immunization campaigns, improved nutrition, and so on. Thus, the direct impact of aid may be more discernible at the sectoral level (Simpasa, Shimeles, & Salami, 2015), and targeted interventions may be more effective in reducing infant mortality (Boone, 1996; Mary & Gomez y Paloma, 2015). Nonetheless, cross‐country studies may be useful to understand the impact of per capita aid expenditure on health outcomes in poor countries, even though they may miss out on sectoral and project level information, which micro‐level studies are better equipped to deal with (Kotsadam, Østby, Rustad, Tollefsen, & Urdal, 2018; Findley, Powell, Strandow, & Tanner, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The analysis of the relationship between foreign aid on economic development is complicated by potential endogeneity of aid as donors tend to allocate foreign aid to countries and areas within countries that have a track record of demonstrated capacity to manage and absorb it efficiently (Furuoka, 2017; Wilson, 2011). To account for the endogeneity problem, previous studies have used lagged aid as an instrument for current aid and yet found mixed results regarding the effect of aggregate aid or sector‐specific aid on infant or child mortality (Boone, 1996; Masud & Yontcheva, 2005; Mary & Gomez y Paloma, 2015; Pickbourn & Ndikumana, 2019). Similar inconclusive results emerge when the focus is on the relationship between disease‐specific aid and disease‐specific outcomes (Hsiao & Emdin, 2015; Lu et al, 2010; Shiffman, 2008; Bendavid, Holmes, Bhattacharya, & Miller, 2012; Lordan, Tang, & Carmignani, 2011).…”

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Impact of development aid on infant mortality: Micro‐level evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Wayoro

Ndikumana

2020

African Development Review

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The empirical literature has failed to reach consensus on the impact of aid on development outcomes based on aggregate crosscountry analysis. This study follows the current trend in the literature on the effectiveness of aid to examine the impact of local-level aid on health outcomes. We combine data on World Bank's geo-located aid projects with three rounds of Demographic Health Surveys from Côte d'Ivoire and use difference-indifference estimation techniques to explore the effects of aid on infant mortality. We find that proximity to development aid projects is associated with reduced infant mortality. The results hold whether we consider proximity to any aid project or specifically to water and sanitation projects. They are also robust to inclusion of mother fixed-effects in the model. The evidence suggests that access to prenatal and postnatal health care are possible mechanisms through which aid may affect infant mortality.

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Does agricultural aid reduce child stunting?

Cited by 23 publications

References 58 publications

Smart Management of Malnutrition Using Local Foods: A Sustainable Initiative for Developing Countries

Smart Management of Malnutrition Using Local Foods: A Sustainable Initiative for Developing Countries

The Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows on Agriculture Development and Poverty Reduction: Panel Data Analysis for Developing Countries

Impact of development aid on infant mortality: Micro‐level evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

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