Zanello, G., Shankar, B. orcid.org/0000-0001-8102-321X and Poole, N. (2019) Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan. Food Policy, 87. 101731. ISSN 0306-9192
Abstract
Increasing on-farm production diversity and improving markets are recognized as ways to improve the dietary diversity of smallholders. Using instrumental variable methods to account for endogeneity, we study the interplay of production diversity, markets and diets in the context of seasonality in Afghanistan. We confirm an important seasonal dimension to the interplay. Improved crop diversity over the year is positively associated with dietary diversity in the regular season, but not in the lean season. Livestock species diversity remains important for dietary diversity throughout the year, but particularly so in the lean season when the influence of cropping diversity is low. Market aspects become important for dietary diversity specifically in the lean season.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Dietary diversity; Nutrition; Agricultural production diversity; Food markets; Seasonality; Afghanistan |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2020 08:42 |
Last Modified: | 14 May 2020 08:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101731 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160479 |