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Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35130282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263276 |
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author | Gaillard, Cédric Verger, Eric O. Dury, Sandrine Dop, Marie Claude El Ati, Jalila |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-88206232022-02-08 Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia Gaillard, Cédric Verger, Eric O. Dury, Sandrine Dop, Marie Claude El Ati, Jalila PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8820623/ /pubmed/35130282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263276 Text en © 2022 Gaillard et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gaillard, Cédric Verger, Eric O. Dury, Sandrine Dop, Marie Claude El Ati, Jalila Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia |
title | Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia |
title_full | Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia |
title_fullStr | Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia |
title_full_unstemmed | Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia |
title_short | Farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia |
title_sort | farm production diversity and women’s dietary diversity: evidence from central tunisia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35130282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263276 |
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