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Home gardens, household nutrition and income in rural farm households in Odisha, India

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Title Home gardens, household nutrition and income in rural farm households in Odisha, India
 
Creator Ogutu, Sylvester O.
Mockshell, Jonathan
Garrett, James
Labarta, Ricardo
Ritter, Thea
Martey, Edward
Swamikannu, Nedumaran
Gotor, Elisabetta
González, Carolina
 
Subject domestic gardens
food
diet
nutrition
anthropometry
income
households
econometrics
food security
poverty
 
Description Home gardens have been an integral part of the recent food-based interventions aimed at stimulating changes in dietary patterns and improving nutrition. However, evidence of their effects on food security, dietary quality, child anthropometry and incomes is limited, particularly among vulnerable populations groups. Using panel data from a sample of approximately 1900 households from vulnerable population groups in Odisha, India, difference-in-differences and other econometric techniques, we analyse the effects of home gardens on food security, dietary quality, child anthropometry and income. On average, home gardens contribute to better household food security, higher dietary quality of men and women but do not contribute to higher children's dietary quality and anthropometry. Also, home gardens increase monthly per adult equivalent incomes by 37% and reduce the prevalence of poverty by 11.7 percentage points. Quantile regression results suggest that home gardens enhance food security and incomes in all quantiles, but richer farmers benefit more than poorer farmers. Overall, home gardens can enhance household food security, dietary quality of men and women, and income gains among vulnerable farming population groups, but they may not suffice to improve child dietary quality and anthropometry.
 
Date 2023-09
2023-02-14T19:33:35Z
2023-02-14T19:33:35Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ogutu, Sylvester O.; Mockshell, Jonathan; Garrett, James; Labarta, Ricardo; Ritter, Thea; Martey, Edward; Swamikannu, Nedumaran; Gotor, Elisabetta; and Gonzalez, Carolina. Home gardens, household nutrition and income in rural farm households in Odisha, India. Journal of Agricultural Economics. Article in press. First published online on February 7, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12525
0021-857X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128713
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1477-9552.12525
https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12525
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Journal of Agricultural Economics