Farm production diversity and women's dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia.
Adult
Agriculture
/ methods
Animals
Animals, Domestic
Crops, Agricultural
/ classification
Dairy Products
/ supply & distribution
Diet
/ standards
Diet Surveys
Eating
/ physiology
Family Characteristics
Farms
Female
Food Supply
Humans
Middle Aged
Models, Theoretical
Nutrition Assessment
Nutritional Status
Rural Population
/ statistics & numerical data
Tunisia
/ epidemiology
Women's Health
Young Adult
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
26
05
2021
accepted:
16
01
2022
entrez:
7
2
2022
pubmed:
8
2
2022
medline:
4
3
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In the context of studies on the effects of agricultural production diversity, there are debates in the scientific community as to the level of diversification appropriate for improving dietary diversity. In Tunisia, agriculture is a strategic sector for the economy and a critical pillar of its food sovereignty. Using instrumental variable methods to account for endogeneity, we have estimated the association between agricultural production diversity and women's dietary diversity among smallholder farming households in the Sidi Bouzid governorate (central Tunisia). Although we found a low level of agricultural production diversity and a fairly diversified diet among women, we observed a systematic weak positive association between five different indicators of agricultural production diversity and women's dietary diversity. We observed a stronger positive association between women's dietary diversity and women being more educated and households being wealthier. Neither diversity of food supplies in food markets nor market distance were associated with women's dietary diversity, whereas we observed a higher level of consumption of some products (dairy) when they were produced on the farm.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35130282
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263276
pii: PONE-D-21-17367
pmc: PMC8820623
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0263276Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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