Record Details

Sustainable intensification and household dietary diversity in maize-based farming systems of Zambia and Zimbabwe

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Sustainable intensification and household dietary diversity in maize-based farming systems of Zambia and Zimbabwe
 
Creator Ngoma, Hambulo
Simutowe, Esau
Manyanga, Mark
Thierfelder, Christian
 
Subject households
smallholders
sustainable intensification
 
Description With only four years before the end date for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition, the need to identify nutrition-sensitive and sustainable agricultural interventions that can address hunger and malnutrition cannot be more urgent. This paper assesses associations between sustainable intensification practices and dietary diversity in maize-based farming systems of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Using survey data from 1124 households, we apply an instrumental variable approach that allows to control for the fact that farmers self-select themselves into adopting sustainable intensification practices, making adoption endogenous. We also explore pathways from intensification to dietary diversity. We find significant positive associations between the adoption intensity of sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) such as minimum tillage, minimum tillage and crop rotation, and minimum tillage and intercrops and improved production and crop diversity and in turn, dietary diversity on average. These findings hinge on there being widespread adoption of SIPs. There is need for concerted efforts to address current bottlenecks that hinder widespread adoption and promote broader food group diversification to realize the nutrition related co-benefits associated with sustainable intensification.
 
Date 2023
2023-04-18T17:14:38Z
2023-04-18T17:14:38Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ngoma, H., Simutowe, E., Manyanga, M., & Thierfelder, C. (2023). Sustainable intensification and household dietary diversity in maize-based farming systems of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Outlook on Agriculture, 52(1), 34–46. https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22575
0030-7270
2043-6866
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130040
https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22575
https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270221150
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher SAGE Publications
 
Source Outlook on Agriculture