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Underutilised Indigenous Vegetables for Household Dietary Diversity in Southwest Nigeria

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Title Underutilised Indigenous Vegetables for Household Dietary Diversity in Southwest Nigeria
 
Creator Tanimonure, V.A.
Naziri, D.
Codjoe, S.N.
Ayanwale, A.B.
 
Subject rural areas
vegetables
biodiversity
Nigeria
households
 
Description The diets of many households in developing countries are monotonous and starch-based.Integrating underutilised indigenous vegetables (UIVs) to cropping systems can contribute to bothcrop and dietary diversities, thereby improving rural households’ nutrition and boosting foodsecurity. Therefore, this study established a link between the UIVs’ diversity and the householddietary diversity (HDD) of the UIVs producers in the rural area of Southwest Nigeria. A multistagesampling technique was used to select 191 UIV-producing households in the region. Their HDD wasmeasured based on the 12 unique food groups consumed by households over a 7-day reference periodpreceding the survey, and negative binomial Poisson regression analysis was used to determine therelationship between UIV diversities, other sociodemographic characteristics, and the HDD scoreof the UIV-producing households in the area. The results showed that only about four groups offood contributed greatly to the HDD score. The result of the negative binomial Poisson regressionanalysis showed UIVs diversity as a significant variable that increased the HDD score in the studyarea. Other factors that determined the HDD score of UIV-producing households were the maritalstatus of the household head, farm distance from the home, UIVs land area, off-farm income, UIVsgross margin, per capita food expenditure, and Oyo location. The study concluded that the inclusionof diverse underutilised indigenous vegetables into cropping systems in rural areas and vegetablehome gardening practices in the rural and urban areas of developing countries could alleviate thechallenge of nutrition insecurity.
 
Date 2021-10-28
2022-04-04T16:09:34Z
2022-04-04T16:09:34Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Tanimonure, V.A.; Naziri, D.; Codjoe, S.N.; Ayanwale, A.B. 2021. Underutilised indigenous vegetables for household dietary diversity in the era of climate change in Southwest Nigeria. Agriculture. 11(11). ISSN 2077-0472. 13 p.
2077-0472
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119242
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11111064
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 13 p.
 
Publisher MDPI AG
 
Source Agriculture