Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …

household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the impact of commercialization on household food security … important not only for rural economic growth, but also for making smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive. …

terms of household expenditures, child education, and nutrition. Results show that Organic and Fairtrade both have positive … contributes to improved nutrition but has no effect on education. For Fairtrade it is exactly the other way around. We explore the …

facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains …

assumption that nutrition consumption is a mixture of two different behavioral stages: a poor stage and an affluent stage. Based …

. Here, we analyze impacts on farm household nutrition. Building on data from vegetable farmers in Kenya, we show that … impacts on dietary quality. The total nutrition effects of supermarket participation could be even more positive if women were … be useful for other impact studies to better understand agriculture-nutrition linkages. …

Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy … consequences of the nutrition transition have been expanding waistlines and surging rates of nutrition-related non …-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected …

, several articles have discussed how the nutrition transition has affected people’s body weights in the country. This article …