Food Intake and the Role of Food Self-Provisioning

Katharina Lehmann-Uschner and Kati Kraehnert

Journal of Development Studies, 2017, vol. 53, issue 8, 1303-1322

Abstract: This article investigates the role of food self-provisioning for the intake of nutrients of households in Mongolia. We analyse nutritional outcomes within and across urban wage employees, rural households with small herds, and pastoralists with large herds. Food self-provisioning significantly affects dietary quality and quantity. Farming food crops improves the nutrient intake. In contrast, animal husbandry increases the intake of calories and nutrients from animal sources, while it decreases the intake of carbohydrates and nutrients from vegetal sources. This finding suggests household-specific market failures due to remoteness exist. Last, exposure to a weather shock does not affect households’ calorie intake.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1228881

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