Farm-Level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status : Introduction to the Special Issue

Carletto, Gero ; Ruel, Marie ; Winters, Paul ; Zezza, Alberto

Taylor and Francis

关键词: agricultural productivity;    household consumption;    nutrition;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00220388.2015.1018908
RP-ID  :  102498

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Global, national and local policies and programmes for agricultural development are recurrently justified based on their alleged role in improving food and nutrition security. However, strikingly little evidence is available to prove that a direct, household-level link between agricultural production and improved nutrition exists. The objective of this special issue is to systematically and empirically test, using data from Africa and South Asia, whether a relationship between household agricultural production and nutrition can be found. Overall, the studies in this special issue support the hypothesis that household agricultural production has direct and important linkages with dietary patterns and nutrition.