Farm-Level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status: Introduction to the Special Issue
本特刊利用非洲和南亚数据，系统检验农户农业生产与营养状况之间的直接联系，发现农业生产对膳食模式和营养有重要影响。
Global, national and local policies and programmes for agricultural development are recurrently justified based on their alleged role in improving food and nutrition security. However, strikingly little evidence is available to prove that a direct, household-level link between agricultural production and improved nutrition exists. The objective of this special issue is to systematically and empirically test, using data from Africa and South Asia, whether a relationship between household agricultural production and nutrition can be found. Overall, the studies in this special issue support the hypothesis that household agricultural production has direct and important linkages with dietary patterns and nutrition.