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

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1477-9552.12525
https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12525
 
Title Home gardens, household nutrition and income in rural farm households in Odisha, India
 
Creator Ogutu, S O
Mockshell, J
Garrett, J
Labarta, R
Ritter, T
Martey, E
Nedumaran, S
Gotor, E
Gonzalez, C
 
Subject Smallholder Agriculture
Food Security
India
 
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.
 
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Ltd
 
Date 2023-01-03
 
Type Article
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12077/1/J%20Agricultural%20Economics_1-20_2023.pdf
Ogutu, S O and Mockshell, J and Garrett, J and Labarta, R and Ritter, T and Martey, E and Nedumaran, S and Gotor, E and Gonzalez, C (2023) Home gardens, household nutrition and income in rural farm households in Odisha, India. American Journal Of Agricultural Economics. pp. 1-20. ISSN 1477-9552