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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 rural areas
nutrition
gender
advisory officers
diet quality
knowledge sharing
intervention
agricultural production
 
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 fe male extension workers and offer opportunities to scale and promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture. However, in both models, we find evidence that the presence of mothers-in-law within households modifies the programs’ effectiveness on some nutrition, empowerment, and attitude measures, suggesting that accounting for other influential household members is a potential area for future programming.
 
Date 2023-07
2023-08-08T09:33:08Z
2023-08-08T09:33:08Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ahmed, Akhter; Coleman, Fiona; Hoddinott, John F.; Menon, Purnima; Parvin, Aklima; Pereira, Audrey; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Roy, Shalini. 2023. Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh. Food Policy 118(July 2023): 102484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484
0306-9192
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131469
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format image/jpeg
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Food Policy