Agricultural production and children's diets: evidence from rural Ethiopia
利用埃塞俄比亚农村家庭调查数据,研究发现家庭生产多样性显著提升学龄前儿童饮食多样性,但这一效应在能接触食品市场的家庭中消失,表明推动市场整合的营养敏感型农业干预比促进生产多样性更有效。
Abstract We study the relationship between pre‐school children's food consumption and household agricultural production. Using a large household survey from rural Ethiopia, we find that increasing household production diversity leads to considerable improvements in children's dietary diversity. However, we also document how this nonseparability 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.