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Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh

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Title Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh
 
Creator Ahmed, Akhter
Coleman, Fiona
Hoddinott, John F.
Menon, Purnima
Parvin, Aklima
Pereira, Audrey
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Roy, Shalini
 
Subject agriculture
agricultural workers
diet
dietary diversity
diet quality
households
gender
gender analysis
gender norms
gender relations
men
nutrition
nutrition knowledge
nutrition research
rural areas
women
women's empowerment
 
Description We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women’s empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, and gender parity do not significantly differ between models where nutrition workers versus agriculture extension workers provide the training. The exception is in an attitudes score, where results indicate same-sex agents may affect scores differently than opposite-sex agents. Our results suggest opposite-sex agents may not necessarily be less effective in providing training. In South Asia, where agricultural extension systems and the pipeline to those systems are male-dominated, training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer a temporary solution to the shortage of female extension workers and offer opportunities to scale promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
 
Date 2022-12-14
2023-01-17T08:14:00Z
2023-01-17T08:14:00Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Ahmed, Akhter; Coleman, Fiona; Hoddinott, John F.; Menon, Purnima; Parvin, Aklima; Pereira, Audrey; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Roy, Shalini. 2022. Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2149. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136473
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127255
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/comparing-delivery-channels-promote-nutrition-sensitive-agriculture-cluster-randomized
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136473
 
Language en
 
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IFPRI Discussion Paper
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format 70 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute