Farm production diversity and women's dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia

Gaillard Cédric, Verger Eric O., Dury Sandrine, Dop Marie-Claude, El Ati Jalila. 2022. Farm production diversity and women's dietary diversity: Evidence from central Tunisia. PloS One, 17 (2):e0263276, 22 p.

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Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Psychologie-éthologie-ergonomie; Staps

Résumé : In the context of studies on the effects of agricultural production diversity, there are debates in the scientific community as to the level of diversification appropriate for improving dietary diversity. In Tunisia, agriculture is a strategic sector for the economy and a critical pillar of its food sovereignty. Using instrumental variable methods to account for endogeneity, we have estimated the association between agricultural production diversity and women's dietary diversity among smallholder farming households in the Sidi Bouzid governorate (central Tunisia). Although we found a low level of agricultural production diversity and a fairly diversified diet among women, we observed a systematic weak positive association between five different indicators of agricultural production diversity and women's dietary diversity. We observed a stronger positive association between women's dietary diversity and women being more educated and households being wealthier. Neither diversity of food supplies in food markets nor market distance were associated with women's dietary diversity, whereas we observed a higher level of consumption of some products (dairy) when they were produced on the farm.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : alimentation humaine, diversification, production alimentaire, consommation alimentaire, femme, statistiques alimentaires, statistiques de consommation alimentaire, enquêtes auprès des ménages, diversité des apports alimentaires

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Tunisie

Mots-clés libres : Farm production diversity, Women, Dietary diversity, Endogeneity, Food market diversity

Classification Agris : S01 - Nutrition humaine - Considérations générales
E90 - Structure agraire

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 3 (2019-) - Systèmes alimentaires

Auteurs et affiliations

• Gaillard Cédric, CIRAD-ES-UMR MOISA (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-4676-3586 - auteur correspondant
• Verger Eric O., IRD (FRA)
• Dury Sandrine, CIRAD-ES-UMR MOISA (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0001-9052-6441
• Dop Marie-Claude, IRD (FRA)
• El Ati Jalila, National Institute of Nutrition (TUN)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/600278/)

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