Farm production diversity is associated with greater household dietary diversity in Malawi: findings from nationally representative data
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Numerous studies have found a positive relationship between diversified farming systems and human nutritional outcomes for smallholder farms.
“Numerous studies have found a positive relationship between diversified farming systems and human nutritional outcomes for smallholder farms (Jones et al., 2014;Powell et al., 2015;Bellon et al., 2016;Demeke et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- Jones, A. D., Shrinivas, A., & Bezner-Kerr, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Andrew D.
- ORCID
- Jones, Andrew D.
- Venue
- Food Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 46
- Pages
- 1-12
- ISSN
- 0306-9192 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2058900792
- Cited by
- 596
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 69 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 65 · 2018: 49 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 10
- FWCI
- 31.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Food Policy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- World Health Organization
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Security and Socioeconomic Dynamics
- Keywords
- household dietary diversity, household food consumption, Simpson index, household dietary diversity score, food consumption score, gender of household head, household wealth, legume consumption, fruit and vegetable intake, Malawi
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