Crop Diversification and Nutrition Outcomes in Smallholder Households: Panel Data Evidence from Southwestern and Northern Uganda
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2021-08
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Namulondo, Racheal
Bashaasha, Bernard
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Abstract
This study examined the effect of adopting crop diversification on nutrition
outcomes of smallholder households in southwestern and northern Uganda. We
constructed three models of correlates of household dietary diversity, minimum
dietary diversity for women, and stunting of children aged 6–59 months. A
3-year panel multi-topic dataset collected in 2012, 2014 and 2016 by USAID’s
Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Laboratory in southwestern and northern
Uganda was utilized. Crop diversification was found to be positively and strongly
associated with household dietary diversity, with the probability of achieving