Nutrition and Growing Your Own Food: Dietary Diversity Evidence from North Central Nigeria

Hephzibah Onyeje Obekpa and Miichael Olabisi

No 303588, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP)

Abstract: Key Findings -Households’ dietary diversity is lower for households that produce a greater share of their own food, compared to households that buy all their food, especially for rural dwellers. -The least food groups produced and consumed by households are eggs, milk, fish & sea products, sweets and fruits which are vital sources of important micro-nutrients needed by the body. -Households produce a set of food items that is too narrow to make their diets diverse.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 2019-03-28
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303588

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