Agricultural production and children’s diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott

No 69, ESSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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 diet diversity. However, we 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 undernutrition than those promoting production diversity.

Keywords: models; households; agricultural policies; nutrition; markets; children; food consumption; diet; dietary diversity; Ethiopia; Eastern Africa; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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