IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/miffpb/303588.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Nutrition and Growing Your Own Food: Dietary Diversity Evidence from North Central Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Hephzibah Onyeje Obekpa
  • Miichael Olabisi

Abstract

Key Findings -Households’ dietary diversity is lower for households that produce a greater share of their own food, compared to households that buy all their food, especially for rural dwellers. -The least food groups produced and consumed by households are eggs, milk, fish & sea products, sweets and fruits which are vital sources of important micro-nutrients needed by the body. -Households produce a set of food items that is too narrow to make their diets diverse.

Suggested Citation

  • Hephzibah Onyeje Obekpa & Miichael Olabisi, 2019. "Nutrition and Growing Your Own Food: Dietary Diversity Evidence from North Central Nigeria," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs 303588, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:303588
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303588
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/303588/files/Policy_Research_Brief_82_1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.303588?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:303588. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/damsuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.