Agricultural production and children鈥檚 diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
This paper studies the relationship between pre-school children鈥檚 food consumption and household agricultural production
Abstract
This working paper has been published by the Ethiopia Strategy Support Programme (ESSP) and funded by Transform Nutrition in which the relationship between pre-school children鈥檚 food consumption and household agricultural production is studied.
Using a large household survey from rural Ethiopia, the authors find that increasing household production diversity leads to considerable improvements in children鈥檚 diet diversity. However, they also document how this non-separability 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.
This research is supported by the Department for International Development鈥檚 Transform Nutrition Programme which is led by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Citation
Hirvonen, K.; Hoddinott, J. Agricultural production and children鈥檚 diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia. Ethiopia Strategy Support Programme (ESSP), (2014) 17 pp.