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FOODS
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods12122408
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smallholder farmers; food security; school feeding; Nigeria; propensity score matching
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In various countries of the global south, school feeding programs are implemented to alleviate short-term hunger in children, improve their nutrition, and provide employment opportunities for food vendors. These programs have a significant impact on pupils' nutrition, as well as improving farmers' livelihoods, productivity, and food security.
In various countries of the global south, school feeding programs are implemented in order to alleviate short-time hunger in children, improved their nutrition and provide employment for food vendors. The impact of these programs is important not only in terms of pupils' nutrition but also in improving farmers' livelihoods productivity and food security. This study analyzes the impact of the school feeding program on smallholder farmers' household food security based on data collected in 2021 from 240 farmers surveyed in northeast Nigeria. Differently from other studies, several econometric methods are used to analyze the data, namely, binary probit regression, propensity score matching, inverse probability weighted adjusted regression, and endogenous switching regression. The results show that about 40% of the beneficial smallholder farmers are food secure compared to 20% of the nonbeneficiary households. Findings revealed that the Homegrown school feeding program (HGSF) positively improved smallholder farmers household food security status across all the models. Results provide evidence for the need to expand school feeding programs vis-a-vis interventions in facilitating farmers' access to capital and capacity building for better integration in the supply chain.
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