Market access, household dietary diversity and food security: Evidence from Eastern Africa

Usman, Muhammed Abdella; Haile, Mekbib G.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102374

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“…Access to market information also positively influences HDDS. Market information access is an inducing element for people to participate in various markets (Usman & Haile, 2022). A household that is informed on available markets knows what is required by the market, when to sell, whom to sell to, and what price to take (Usman & Haile, 2022).…”

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“…Market information access is an inducing element for people to participate in various markets (Usman & Haile, 2022). A household that is informed on available markets knows what is required by the market, when to sell, whom to sell to, and what price to take (Usman & Haile, 2022). It is consequently probable for them to obtain bigger returns, which they can employ to purchase varied and favorite foodstuff, hence become more food secure.…”

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Average and heterogeneous effects of smallholder farm sizes on dietary diversity in northern Ghana

Addai,

Ng'ombe,

Temoso

2023

Review Development Economics

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The relationship between farm size and dietary diversity has recently gained attention among development practitioners and policymakers. To study this issue, we utilized cross‐sectional data from 900 farm households in Northern Ghana. The analysis employs three econometric approaches—ordinary least squares, two‐stage least squares, and instrumental variable (IV) quantile regression. We subjected our estimates to Conley‐Hansen‐Rossi bound tests to assess the validity of total farmland under household control as an IV for farm size, which serves to illustrate the robustness of the causal inferences linking farm size to household dietary diversity. The results show that a 1‐ha increase in cultivated land improves household dietary diversity score by 3.221 units. The effect of cultivated land on dietary diversity is enhanced by market information, use of improved seeds, chemical fertilizers and herbicides, and overall household asset value. In conclusion, the results indicate that farm size increases household dietary diversity when moving along the dietary diversity distribution. This highlights the importance of considering the influence of farm size at different points along the conditional dietary diversity score distribution, as relying solely on mean effects may obscure important counteracting effects.

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Average and heterogeneous effects of smallholder farm sizes on dietary diversity in northern Ghana

Addai,

Ng'ombe,

Temoso

2023

Review Development Economics

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“…Better access to markets has been theorized to improve household food access through reducing time and cost of food acquisition and increasing household purchasing power via opportunities to acquire modern agricultural inputs at the markets [14]. This hypothesis is supported by several observational studies, which showed better household food access and dietary diversity among households located closer to food markets or food markets centers [15,16]. A recent intervention study in Ghana evaluated the impact of community development initiatives and showed that enhancing access to food markets significantly increases household food security and nutrition [17].…”

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Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data

Duong,

Patel,

Nguyen-Viet

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Access to informal fresh food markets plays a vital role in household food security and dietary quality in transitioning rural economies. However, it is not well understood if market access also improves child nutrition and if the improvement applies to all socioeconomic groups. In this secondary research study, we combined a national listing of food markets (n = 503) with a national household survey to examine the associations of market access with diet and height across wealth groups in children aged 6 to 23 months in rural Cambodia. All children under two years of age with dietary data (n = 1537) or anthropometry data (n = 989) were selected from the household survey. Food markets were geocoded using Google Maps or villages’ geographical coordinates publicly available in the Open Development Mekong data platform. Regression calibration was then used to estimate household distance to the nearest market. Descriptive results indicated a highly uneven distribution of food markets with median household distance to the nearest markets ranging between 4 km (IQR: 3–8 km) in the lowland areas and 9 km (IQR: 4–17 km) in the highland areas. Results from the multivariate linear regressions showed that distance to the nearest market was modestly associated with child dietary diversity score (β: -0.17; 95% CI: -0.29, -0.05) but it was not related to child height-for-age z-score, and that household wealth did not modify the associations between distance to markets and child dietary diversity score. These findings suggest that improving access to food markets alone might not lead to meaningful improvement in child diet. Detailed surveys on household food acquisition are needed to clarify the role of food markets relative to other food sources such as subsistence fisheries, subsistence gardening and mobile food traders.

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“…The distance from agriculture farms to market place also very important in this study. According to previous studies the market access has significant impact on DD (Islam et al, 2018;Usman and Callo-Concha, 2021;Usman and Haile, 2022). To do this, we attempted to incorporate market access as a control variable.…”

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Sustainable Food Consumption and Production in the 21st Century

Razzaq,

Asad Ur Rehman Naseer,

Farrukh

2024

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Market access, household dietary diversity and food security: Evidence from Eastern Africa

Cited by 20 publications

References 37 publications

Average and heterogeneous effects of smallholder farm sizes on dietary diversity in northern Ghana

Average and heterogeneous effects of smallholder farm sizes on dietary diversity in northern Ghana

Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data

Sustainable Food Consumption and Production in the 21st Century

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