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Agricultural production diversity and child nutrition in Ethiopia
- Source :
- Food Security. 13:1407-1422
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- This study investigates how two aspects of agricultural production diversity – farm production diversity and composition of production – relate to child height-for-age and weight-for-height in Ethiopia. We use longitudinal data on child anthropometric measurements, household farm production diversity and farm production composition from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey for 2011, 2013, and 2015 available through the World Bank. Using longitudinal fixed effects models, we show that an increase in farm production diversity reduces the risk of chronic food insecurity (child height-for-age) but has no impact on acute measures of food insecurity (child weight-for-height). Results also suggest that, in a context of poor rainfall, more diversity in farm production can adversely impact child height-for-age, although livestock sales might mitigate that detrimental effect. These findings highlight the importance of considering the relationship between farm-level food production and child nutrition in a context of climate change.
- Subjects :
- business.industry
050204 development studies
05 social sciences
Context (language use)
Fixed effects model
Development
Geography
Agriculture
0502 economics and business
Food processing
Production (economics)
050202 agricultural economics & policy
Agricultural productivity
business
Socioeconomics
human activities
Agronomy and Crop Science
Socioeconomic status
Food Science
Diversity (business)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18764525 and 18764517
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Food Security
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........38e7b32625e16d722132753834864866