Replication data for: Impact Evaluation of the Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) Project in Rwanda: Baseline Household Survey and Listing Data, 2014-2015
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Replication data for: Impact Evaluation of the Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) Project in Rwanda: Baseline Household Survey and Listing Data, 2014-2015
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https://doi.org/10.21223/P3/MKWO5O
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Peters, Caroline
Farris, Jarrad Porter, Maria Maredia, Mywish Jin, Songqing |
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International Potato Center
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Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a widespread health problem among young children and pregnant women in many countries in Africa. One effective and low cost solution to fight VAD is to introduce a biofortified staple food crop that is rich in vitamin A, such as the beta-carotene-rich orange fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP). Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) is a project led by the International Potato Center (CIP) with support from the U.K. Department for International Development to deliver the benefits of OFSP to millions of farming households and thousands of urban and rural consumers in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Rwanda by taking an integrated agriculture-nutrition-marketing approach. As an independent evaluation partner, Michigan State University had designed a randomized-controlled trial (RCT) field experiment to test the effectiveness of different combinations of the integrated agriculture-nutrition-market approach of promoting the adoption and consumption of OFSP at scale. The research design consisted of randomly assigning project villages to one of the following six treatment arms: 1) Base model: All the components of the integrated Agriculture, Nutrition and Marketing approach; 2) Base model less nutrition counseling; 2) Base model less marketing; 4) Base model less nutrition counseling and marketing; 5) Base model, but only one season; and 6) Base model with the second time vine distribution at a higher price. The evaluation was designed to address the following research questions: 1) Which combinations of market promotion and nutrition information dissemination are most cost effective for promoting production and consumption of OFSP by a large number of beneficiaries (scale) to meet their nutritional needs (intensity) over time (sustainability)? 2) Which factors are important in determining OFSP adoption by farmers, and their consumption among children and women? Do the different promotion strategies influence them differently? 3) How do the effects of various project components involving training and knowledge dissemination (e.g., nutritional information, market information) differ across different recipient and household characteristics (e.g., gender, age, education of recipient of training and of household head)? This dataset is an output of household surveys of potential project beneficiaries conducted in 8 districts in Rwanda in 2014-2015 by Michigan State University to serve as a baseline for the impact evaluation.
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Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences Rwanda Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato Randomized Controlled Trial Impact Evaluation Baseline survey Household survey Vitamin A Nutrition Adoption Consumption Anthropometrics |
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English
Kinyarwanda |
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Administrator, CIP
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) U.K. Department of International Development through International Potato Center (CIP) International Potato Center Michigan State University |
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dta, sample survey data [ssd]
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