Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data
In Tajikistan, the poorest country in the Central Asia region and one of the poorest in the world, food consumption patterns remain inadequate for a significant share of the population. Undernutrition and child stunting, among other outcomes, remain prevalent. At the same time, overnutrition and obe...
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Akramov, Kamiljon T. Park, Allen Ilyasov, Jarilkasin Liu, Yanyan Ergasheva, Tanzila |
| author_browse | Akramov, Kamiljon T. Ergasheva, Tanzila Ilyasov, Jarilkasin Liu, Yanyan Park, Allen Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
| author_facet | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Akramov, Kamiljon T. Park, Allen Ilyasov, Jarilkasin Liu, Yanyan Ergasheva, Tanzila |
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| description | In Tajikistan, the poorest country in the Central Asia region and one of the poorest in the world, food consumption patterns remain inadequate for a significant share of the population. Undernutrition and child stunting, among other outcomes, remain prevalent. At the same time, overnutrition and obesity are becoming increasingly serious. Using pooled cross-section datasets collected in 2007 and 2015 from farm households in Khatlon province (the major agricultural area in Tajikistan), we investigate how key agricultural production practices (APPs) (household-level production diversification, land productivity, and production scale) are associated with household-level and individual-level nutritional outcomes, including dietary diversity and children’s and women’s anthropometric outcomes. We find that, in rural Khatlon, these APPs are positively associated with various nutritional outcomes at the household level. Furthermore, applying the methodologies of Lee (1979), Maddala (1983), and Björklund and Moffitt (1987), we find that a different set of factors affects the unobserved returns and costs of these APPs, which are heterogeneous across households, and that, importantly, adoption of these APPs is partly driven by the expected returns. However, despite the positive gross returns, diversifying farm production or raising land productivity is costly among small and resource-poor farms. Improving their access to land and agricultural capital, as well as improving overall land productivity, with particular support to women, may be critical for enhancing their nutritional outcomes by exploiting agriculture’s linkages to such outcomes. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1456552025-12-08T10:11:39Z Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data Takeshima, Hiroyuki Akramov, Kamiljon T. Park, Allen Ilyasov, Jarilkasin Liu, Yanyan Ergasheva, Tanzila anthropometric dimensions agricultural production household surveys agriculture nutrition market access probit analysis dietary diversity In Tajikistan, the poorest country in the Central Asia region and one of the poorest in the world, food consumption patterns remain inadequate for a significant share of the population. Undernutrition and child stunting, among other outcomes, remain prevalent. At the same time, overnutrition and obesity are becoming increasingly serious. Using pooled cross-section datasets collected in 2007 and 2015 from farm households in Khatlon province (the major agricultural area in Tajikistan), we investigate how key agricultural production practices (APPs) (household-level production diversification, land productivity, and production scale) are associated with household-level and individual-level nutritional outcomes, including dietary diversity and children’s and women’s anthropometric outcomes. We find that, in rural Khatlon, these APPs are positively associated with various nutritional outcomes at the household level. Furthermore, applying the methodologies of Lee (1979), Maddala (1983), and Björklund and Moffitt (1987), we find that a different set of factors affects the unobserved returns and costs of these APPs, which are heterogeneous across households, and that, importantly, adoption of these APPs is partly driven by the expected returns. However, despite the positive gross returns, diversifying farm production or raising land productivity is costly among small and resource-poor farms. Improving their access to land and agricultural capital, as well as improving overall land productivity, with particular support to women, may be critical for enhancing their nutritional outcomes by exploiting agriculture’s linkages to such outcomes. 2018-11-15 2024-06-21T09:04:48Z 2024-06-21T09:04:48Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145655 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147594 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146317 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149588 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60714-6_5 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145610 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12571 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Akramov, Kamiljon T.; Park, Allen; Ilyasov, Jarilkasin; Liu, Yanyan; and Ergasheva, Tanzila. 2018. Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1770. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145655 |
| spellingShingle | anthropometric dimensions agricultural production household surveys agriculture nutrition market access probit analysis dietary diversity Takeshima, Hiroyuki Akramov, Kamiljon T. Park, Allen Ilyasov, Jarilkasin Liu, Yanyan Ergasheva, Tanzila Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data |
| title | Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data |
| title_full | Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data |
| title_short | Agriculture–nutrition linkages in Tajikistan: Evidence from household survey data |
| title_sort | agriculture nutrition linkages in tajikistan evidence from household survey data |
| topic | anthropometric dimensions agricultural production household surveys agriculture nutrition market access probit analysis dietary diversity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145655 |
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