Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania

Severely reduced height-for-age due to undernutrition is widespread in young African children, with serious implications for their health and later economic productivity. It is primarily caused by growth faltering due to hunger spells in critical periods of early child development. We assess the imp...

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Main Authors:	Folke Larsen, Anna, Lilleor, Helene Bie
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	NUTRITION FOOD SECURITY CHILD NUTRITION EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT SMALLHOLDER FARMER AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31477

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spelling	okr-10986-314772021-05-25T10:54:37Z Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania Folke Larsen, Anna Lilleor, Helene Bie NUTRITION FOOD SECURITY CHILD NUTRITION EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT SMALLHOLDER FARMER AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Severely reduced height-for-age due to undernutrition is widespread in young African children, with serious implications for their health and later economic productivity. It is primarily caused by growth faltering due to hunger spells in critical periods of early child development. We assess the impact on early childhood nutrition, measured as height-for-age, of an agricultural intervention that improved food security among smallholder farmers by providing them with a “basket” of new technology options. We find that height-for-age measures among children from participating households increased by about 0.9 standard deviations and the incidence of stunting among them decreased by about 18 percentage points. 2019-04-01T19:42:08Z 2019-04-01T19:42:08Z 2017-10-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31477 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Tanzania
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topic	NUTRITION FOOD SECURITY CHILD NUTRITION EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT SMALLHOLDER FARMER AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
spellingShingle	NUTRITION FOOD SECURITY CHILD NUTRITION EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT SMALLHOLDER FARMER AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Folke Larsen, Anna Lilleor, Helene Bie Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania
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description	Severely reduced height-for-age due to undernutrition is widespread in young African children, with serious implications for their health and later economic productivity. It is primarily caused by growth faltering due to hunger spells in critical periods of early child development. We assess the impact on early childhood nutrition, measured as height-for-age, of an agricultural intervention that improved food security among smallholder farmers by providing them with a “basket” of new technology options. We find that height-for-age measures among children from participating households increased by about 0.9 standard deviations and the incidence of stunting among them decreased by about 18 percentage points.
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author	Folke Larsen, Anna Lilleor, Helene Bie
author_facet	Folke Larsen, Anna Lilleor, Helene Bie
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title	Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania
title_short	Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania
title_full	Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania
title_fullStr	Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed	Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31477
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Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania

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