Farm-Level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status: Introduction to the Special Issue

By G. Carletto, M. Ruel, P. Winters, A. Zezza. 2015

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Abstract Global, national and local policies and programmes for agricultural development are recurrently justified based on their alleged role in improving food and nutrition security. However, strikingly little evidence is available to prove that a direct, household-level link between agricultural production and improved nutrition exists. The objective of this special issue is to systematically and empirically test, using data from Africa and South Asia, whether a relationship between household agricultural production and nutrition can be found. Overall, the studies in this special issue support the hypothesis that household agricultural production has direct and important linkages with dietary patterns and nutrition.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research

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In General Health Professions

1. Theda Gödecke
2. S. Ogutu
3. M. Qaim

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. Theda Gödecke
2. S. Ogutu
3. M. Qaim
4. Kibrom T. Sibhatu

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2. Theda Gödecke
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Citations in the corpus

• Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households (2019, background): “Commercialization may influence nutrition through various channels, including changes in income, the availability of own-produced foods, and gender roles within the farm household (von Braun and Kennedy 1994; Carletto et al. 2015).”
• Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions (2019, background): “This is also reinforced by Carletto et al. (2015), who review a series of studies showing that a household’s agricultural production can directly influence the dietary patterns of household members, where the extent of impact depends on a variety of factors including location, commodities produced,…”