Can smallholder fruit and vegetable production systems improve household food security and nutritional status of women? Evidence from rural Uganda

Nassul Kabunga, Shibani Ghosh and Jeffrey K. Griffiths

No 1346, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This paper aims to empirically infer potential causal linkages between fruit and vegetable (F&V) production, individual F&V intake, household food security, and anemia levels for individual women caregivers of childbearing age.

Keywords: anaemia; gender; households; vegetables; malnutrition; haemoglobin; fruits; food security; diet; women; Uganda; Eastern Africa; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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