Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh
We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household...
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| author | Ahmed, Akhter Coleman, Fiona M. Hoddinott, John F. Menon, Purnima Parvin, Aklima Pereira, Audrey Quisumbing, Agnes R. Roy, Shalini |
| author_browse | Ahmed, Akhter Coleman, Fiona M. Hoddinott, John F. Menon, Purnima Parvin, Aklima Pereira, Audrey Quisumbing, Agnes R. Roy, Shalini |
| author_facet | Ahmed, Akhter Coleman, Fiona M. Hoddinott, John F. Menon, Purnima Parvin, Aklima Pereira, Audrey Quisumbing, Agnes R. Roy, Shalini |
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| description | We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women’s empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, and gender parity do not significantly differ between models where nutrition workers versus agriculture extension workers provide the training. The exception is in an attitudes score, where results indicate same-sex agents may affect scores differently than opposite-sex agents. Our results suggest opposite-sex agents may not necessarily be less effective in providing training. In South Asia, where agricultural extension systems and the pipeline to those systems are male-dominated, training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer a temporary solution to the shortage of female extension workers and offer opportunities to scale promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1272552025-12-02T21:03:03Z Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh Ahmed, Akhter Coleman, Fiona M. Hoddinott, John F. Menon, Purnima Parvin, Aklima Pereira, Audrey Quisumbing, Agnes R. Roy, Shalini agriculture agricultural workers diet dietary diversity diet quality households gender gender analysis gender norms gender relations men nutrition nutrition knowledge nutrition research rural areas women women's empowerment attitudes agricultural products capacity development We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women’s empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, and gender parity do not significantly differ between models where nutrition workers versus agriculture extension workers provide the training. The exception is in an attitudes score, where results indicate same-sex agents may affect scores differently than opposite-sex agents. Our results suggest opposite-sex agents may not necessarily be less effective in providing training. In South Asia, where agricultural extension systems and the pipeline to those systems are male-dominated, training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer a temporary solution to the shortage of female extension workers and offer opportunities to scale promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture. 2022-12-14 2023-01-17T08:14:00Z 2023-01-17T08:14:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127255 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9789845063715_14 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146775 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135845 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133872 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146314 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ahmed, Akhter; Coleman, Fiona; Hoddinott, John F.; Menon, Purnima; Parvin, Aklima; Pereira, Audrey; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Roy, Shalini. 2022. Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2149. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136473. |
| spellingShingle | agriculture agricultural workers diet dietary diversity diet quality households gender gender analysis gender norms gender relations men nutrition nutrition knowledge nutrition research rural areas women women's empowerment attitudes agricultural products capacity development Ahmed, Akhter Coleman, Fiona M. Hoddinott, John F. Menon, Purnima Parvin, Aklima Pereira, Audrey Quisumbing, Agnes R. Roy, Shalini Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh |
| title | Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition sensitive agriculture a cluster randomized controlled trial in bangladesh |
| topic | agriculture agricultural workers diet dietary diversity diet quality households gender gender analysis gender norms gender relations men nutrition nutrition knowledge nutrition research rural areas women women's empowerment attitudes agricultural products capacity development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127255 |
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