Journal
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages 40-47Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2018.09.001
Keywords
Homestead gardens; Adoption; Scalability; Water scarcity; Market access
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation under the project Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture (ARENA) [OPP1177007]
- CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1162182]
- CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1162182, OPP1177007] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Low intake of fruits and vegetables is a major cause of micronutrient deficiencies in the developing world. Since the 1980s, various non-governmental organizations have promoted homestead gardening (HG) programs, first in Asia, but now increasingly in Africa. Longstanding concerns with HG programs are: (1) they lack scalability, particularly for governments; (2) they only work in areas with/without good access to markets; and (3) they are only suitable for more water-abundant ecologies. We assess these concerns by analyzing a large and novel survey on the adoption of a nationwide HG program implemented by the Ethiopian government. We find that better market access encourages HG adoption; so too does greater public promotion of HGs, but only in more water-abundant ecologies.
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