If They Grow It, Will They Eat and Grow? Evidence from Zambia on Agricultural Diversity and Child Undernutrition

Kumar, Neha; Harris, Jody; Raj, Rahul

doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1018901

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“…Recent studies suggest that agricultural interventions or technologies can affect child nutrition through two main pathways: (a) food production/productivity; and (b) agricultural income (Herforth & Harris, ; Kumar et al., ). Figure depicts these pathways in the context of this study.…”

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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

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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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“…The difficulties of developing multi‐sectoral approaches are acknowledged by the World Bank in its guidance on developing such approaches to address nutrition (World Bank, ). The Bank's advice is to “think multisectorally, [but] act sectorally.” Other recent authors have focused on the potential for improving nutrition through agriculture, examining the evidence (or lack thereof) of effectiveness (Masset, Haddad, Cornelius, & Isaza‐Castro, ; Webb Girard, Self, McAuliffe, & Olude, ; Dorward, ; Wiggins & Keats, ; Kumar, Harris, & Rawat, ), and on issues relating to institutional arrangements and the “enabling environment” to promote agriculture‐nutrition interactions (Levitt, Pelletier, & Pell, ; Levitt, Pelletier, Dufour, & Pell, ; Gillespie, van den Bold, Hodge, & Herforth, ).…”

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Multi‐sectoral collaboration for improved nutrition: The problems and prospects of implementation in Ethiopia

Chisholm

2018

Development Policy Review

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Implementing nutrition initiatives through multi‐sectoral collaboration is challenging. This qualitative study explores these challenges in two regions of Ethiopia, through interviews with development staff at lower administrative levels. Respondents identified structural and attitudinal causes of undernutrition. The health sector was perceived to have primary responsibility to address nutrition. The Women's Affairs office had a lesser role than expected. Agricultural officers still saw their primary mandate as increasing cereal production. Cross‐sectoral collaboration was stronger in addressing short‐term food crises rather than chronic undernutrition. There is a need to build a shared understanding of the causes of undernutrition, including the many constraints faced by resource‐poor households, to provide more resources for implementation and to adopt a more gendered focus.

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“…Hoddinott et al (2015) analyze the impact of household agricultural production on nutritional outcomes in rural Ethiopia, finding that cow ownership increases milk consumption and reduces stunting, which the authors attribute to market imperfections in the dairy sector. Kumar et al (2015) investigate the link between agricultural production diversity and dietary diversity at the household level in Zambia, finding a strong positive association between the two.…”

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Food Intake and the Role of Food Self-Provisioning

Lehmann-Uschner

Krähnert

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper investigates the role of food self-provisioning for the intake of macro-and micronutrients of households in Mongolia. Our analysis is based on rich household survey data that collected food consumption through consumption diaries. We analyze nutritional outcomes within and across the three prevalent Mongolian livelihoods that derive food from different sources: urban wave employees, rural households with small herds, and pastoralists with large herds. Results show that food consumption patterns differ strongly across the three livelihoods, with herding households having a better nutrition situation. Moreover, food self-provisioning significantly affects dietary quality and quantity. Farming food crops improves the nutrient intake of small herders. In contrast, the provision of food through animal husbandry activities has ambivalent effects on households' diet. It increases the intake of calories and nutrients from animal sources, while it decreases the intake of carbohydrates and nutrients from vegetal sources. This finding suggests household-specific market failures due to remoteness exist. Last, exposure to a severe weather event did not negatively affect households' energy intake, but it reduces the intake of nutrient from animal sources.

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If They Grow It, Will They Eat and Grow? Evidence from Zambia on Agricultural Diversity and Child Undernutrition

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

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

Multi‐sectoral collaboration for improved nutrition: The problems and prospects of implementation in Ethiopia

Food Intake and the Role of Food Self-Provisioning

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