journal article
Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status
Introduction to the Special Issue
the journal of development studies | 2015
Citation
Carletto, Calogero; Ruel, Marie T.; Winters, Paul; and Zezza, Alberto. 2015. Farm-level pathways to improved nutritional status: Introduction to the Special Issue. The Journal of Development Studies. Special Issue: Farm-level Pathways to Improved Nutritional Status. 51(8): 945 - 957. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1018908
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.