Does mixed crop‐livestock farming lead to less diversified diets among smallholders? Evidence from Laos

Parvathi, Priyanka

doi:10.1111/agec.12431

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“…A higher level of household wealth helps to maintain consumption during unanticipated events that demand additional expenditure. This result is consistent with that reported by Parvathi (2018).…”

Section: Role Of Farm Diversity In Food Diversitysupporting

confidence: 94%

Diversification as a means to Improve Household Food Security in Bangladesh

Rehan¹,

Sumelius²,

Bäckman³

2021

The Journal of Developing Areas

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Food security becomes an issue for concern and possible policy response when it points to nutritional deficiencies and access to insufficient food in many developing countries. Over the years, the prime focus has been on self-sufficiency in major cereal production and energy availability for food security in these areas. Diversification in farm production could play a part in improving household nutritional well-being through enhancing economic access to food and increasing the opportunity to consume own production. The aim of this paper is to bridge the research gap by providing quantitative evidence on the impact of farm diversity on household food security, highlighting the nutritional dimension in Bangladesh where rice is considered the major cereal item. In doing this, the authors compare farm households that are very specialized in rice cultivation with more diversified farm households using two different measures of dietary diversity. In addition, two other measures of farm diversification-Simpson's Index of Diversity along with a crop-livestock count variable-have been used in the analysis. The empirical results presented here are based on cross-sectional data collected through a multistage random sampling of 260 farm households in central, northern, and southwestern regions of Bangladesh. The results confirm that farm diversification has a positive and significant influence on food diversity and it therefore improves household food security. Diversification through shifting out of cereal cultivation particularly rice production is found to be an effective and noteworthy approach to enhance food diversity in Bangladesh. In addition, household food diversity is influenced by higher education level, better market access, household size, production per capita, non-farm income diversification, and land size. The study suggests that investment in education and development of infrastructure for better market access will help to boost dietary diversity in Bangladesh. The key policy implication is that farm diversity needs to be encouraged as an important strategy to increase consumption of a varied diet and enhance household food security.

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Section: Role Of Farm Diversity In Food Diversitysupporting

confidence: 94%

Diversification as a means to Improve Household Food Security in Bangladesh

Rehan¹,

Sumelius²,

Bäckman³

2021

The Journal of Developing Areas

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“…Similar to the argument above, this result suggests that TRYRAC interventions contributed to smoothing income and consumption and thus reduced the likelihood of participating households falling below the poverty line in the future. The result is line with the findings of Khonje et al (2018), who report the significant welfare impact of technology adoption in eastern Zambia and the recent study of Parvathi (2018), who finds that improved livestock production can improve food security outcomes among livestock farmers.…”

Section: Impact On Poverty and Vulnerabilitysupporting

confidence: 90%

Returns to livestock disease control – a panel data analysis in Togo

Weyori

Liebenehm

Waibel

2019

European Review of Agricultural Economics

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This paper investigates whether – and to what extent – a veterinary intervention programme lead to improvements in small-scale cattle farmers’ welfare using a unique panel data set of 443 households from northern Togo. Our results show a positive impact of the interventions on improving farmers’ knowledge and husbandry practices that translates into improved livestock health and productivity. In addition, these positive effects trigger improvements in terms of poverty and vulnerability. The results highlight the important role of targeted interventions that aim to improve livestock health – a key asset among rural households in sub-Saharan Africa.

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“…This enables us to control for time‐constant unobserved heterogeneity, which should improve the internal validity of our estimates. And fourth, we contribute to the production diversity–dietary diversity/nutrition literature (see, for example, Hirvonen & Hoddinott, ; Jones et al., ; Kumar, Harris, & Rawat, ; Parvathi, ; Sibhatu et al., ) by studying whether production diversity (proxied in this study by maize–legume intercropping), intensification (proxied by inorganic fertilizer use on maize), or a combination of the two is most beneficial for child nutrition outcomes…”

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“…This enables us to control for timeconstant unobserved heterogeneity, which should improve the internal validity of our estimates. And fourth, we contribute to the production diversity-dietary diversity/nutrition literature (see, for example, Hirvonen & Hoddinott, 2017;Jones et al, 2014;Kumar, Harris, & Rawat, 2015;Parvathi, 2018;Sibhatu et al, 2015) by studying whether production diversity (proxied in this study by maize-legume intercropping), intensification (proxied by inorganic fertilizer use on maize), or a combination of the two is most beneficial for child nutrition outcomes. 2 Our results suggest that, compared to the base category of "Nonadoption," adoption of the "SI" treatment group is consistently associated with improvements in children's HAZ and WAZ, particularly for children beyond breast-feeding age (i.e., those age 25-59 months).…”

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Does sustainable intensification of maize production enhance child nutrition? Evidence from rural Tanzania

Kim

Mason

Snapp

et al. 2019

Agricultural Economics

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Food insecurity, child malnutrition, and land degradation remain persistent problems in sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural sustainable intensification (SI) has been proposed as a possible solution to simultaneously address these challenges. Yet there is little empirical evidence on if agricultural management practices and inputs that contribute to SI from an environmental standpoint do indeed improve food security or child nutrition. We use three waves of data from the nationally-representative Tanzania National Panel Survey to analyze the child nutrition effects of rural households' adoption of farming practices that can contribute to the SI of maize production. We group households into four categories based on their use of three soil fertility management practices on their maize plots: "Nonadoption"; "Intensification" (use of inorganic fertilizer only); "Sustainable" (use of organic fertilizer, maize-legume intercropping, or both); and "SI" (joint use of inorganic fertilizer with organic fertilizer and/or maize-legume intercropping). The results from multinomial endogenous treatment effects models with the Mundlak-Chamberlain device suggest that use of practices in the "SI" category is associated with improvements in children's height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores relative to "Nonadoption," particularly for children aged 25-59 months. These effects appear to come through improvements in both crop income and productivity.

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Does mixed crop‐livestock farming lead to less diversified diets among smallholders? Evidence from Laos

Cited by 16 publications

References 51 publications

Diversification as a means to Improve Household Food Security in Bangladesh

Diversification as a means to Improve Household Food Security in Bangladesh

Returns to livestock disease control – a panel data analysis in Togo

Does sustainable intensification of maize production enhance child nutrition? Evidence from rural Tanzania

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