Impact and distributional effects of a home garden and nutrition intervention in Cambodia

Lutz Depenbusch (), Pepijn Schreinemachers (), Stuart Brown () and Ralph Roothaert ()
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Lutz Depenbusch: World Vegetable Center
Pepijn Schreinemachers: World Vegetable Center
Stuart Brown: World Vegetable Center
Ralph Roothaert: World Vegetable Center

Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, 2022, vol. 14, issue 4, No 2, 865-881

Abstract: Abstract Home garden interventions combining training in agriculture and nutrition have the potential to increase vegetable production and consumption in lower-income countries, but there remains a need for better evidence for impact. This study contributes to filling this gap by evaluating the impact and distributional effects of a home garden intervention in Cambodia. We used a cluster randomized controlled trial with before and after data for a sample of 500 rural households with children under five and women 16–49 years old. Impact was estimated using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and conditional quantile regressions with non-parametric bounds. The results show that the intervention significantly increased the adoption of nearly all promoted gardening methods. More households (+ 35%; p

Keywords: Food security; Homestead food production; Evaluation; Nutrition-sensitive agriculture; Micronutrient; Vegetable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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