The consequences of past agricultural outputs on the interacting nutrition and health of autarkic peasants

Christophe Muller

No 1997-07, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: In rural areas of LDCs, because of the existence of market imperfections, health and nutrition status may depend on the levels of specific agricultural productions and not only on the income level. However, these specific impacts have never been studied. We estimate, from a sequential technological model incorporating interactions between health and nutrition, changes in health and nutrition status of autarkic agricultural households in Rwanda which are due to variations in socio-demographic characteristics and in levels of specific crops. The model is supported by several tests. The estimations take into account cluster-fixed effects and the sampling scheme. The food outputs have generally beneficial influences on health and nutrition, while the traditional beers output has a negative impact. A policy based on incentives for substituting cultures may be particularly favourable to the health and nutrition of peasants.

Keywords: Health and nutrition models; Agricultural households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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