Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households

Undernutrition and micronutrient malnutrition remain problems of significant magnitude in large parts of the developing world. Improved nutrition requires not only better access to food for poor population segments, but also higher dietary quality and diversity. Because many of the poor and undernourished people are smallholder farmers, diversifying production on these smallholder farms is widely perceived as a useful approach to improve dietary diversity. However, empirical evidence on the link between production and consumption diversity is scarce. Here, this issue is addressed with household-level data from Indonesia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Regression models show that on-farm production diversity is…

• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Awards: RTG 1666, CRC 990 and RTG 1666, CRC 990
• BF
  Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft

  Award: 2813FSNu01