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The ‘Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women’ (MDD-W) Indicator is related to household food insecurity and farm production diversity: Evidence from rural Mali

With the aim of contributing to this emerging literature, we investigated: (i) how MDD-W is linked to household food insecurity based on the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and on the Household Hunger Scale (HHS); (ii) how MDD-W is linked to farm production diversity; and (iii) whethe...

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Main Authors: Adubra, Laura, Savy, Mathilde, Fortin, Sonia, Kameli, Yves, Kodjo, Niamké Ezoua, Fainke, Kamayera, Mahamadou, Tanimoune, Le Port, Agnès, Martin-Prével, Yves
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
Subjects:
gender
agricultural production
nutrition
food security
rural areas
women
dietary diversity
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145859
Summary:With the aim of contributing to this emerging literature, we investigated: (i) how MDD-W is linked to household food insecurity based on the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and on the Household Hunger Scale (HHS); (ii) how MDD-W is linked to farm production diversity; and (iii) whether contextual factors such as household wealth status modify these relationships. As a secondary objective, we also checked whether all of these associations held, or not, when the number of food groups consumed was used as a continuous variable, in order to conclude on the cost of dichotomization.

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