Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan

Zanello, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0477-1385, Shankar, B. and Nigel, P. (2019) Buy or make? Agricultural production diversity, markets and dietary diversity in Afghanistan. Food Policy, 87. 101731. ISSN 0306-9192 doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101731

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/84267
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101731
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Agri-Food Economics & Marketing
Publisher	Elsevier
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