Synopsis: Commercialization and dietary diversity of Rwandan smallholder farmers: a focus on women and youth headed households

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.contributor.donorGovernment of the United States of Americaen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeNational Policies and Strategiesen
cg.contributor.initiativeRethinking Food Marketsen
cg.contributor.initiativeSustainable Healthy Dietsen
cg.coverage.countryRwandaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2RWen
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen
cg.creator.identifierEmerence Mukangabo: 0009-0003-3657-3791en
cg.creator.identifierJames Warner: 0000-0002-5768-3004en
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Uniten
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Rwanda Strategy Support Programen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.number19en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobsen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen
dc.contributor.authorMukangabo, Emerenceen
dc.contributor.authorWarner, Jamesen
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-08T16:35:06Zen
dc.date.available2025-04-08T16:35:06Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174068
dc.titleSynopsis: Commercialization and dietary diversity of Rwandan smallholder farmers: a focus on women and youth headed householdsen
dcterms.abstractIn the last two decades, the government of Rwanda has significantly lowered stunting among children under five years from 48% in 2000 to 33% in 2020 and recognizes dietary diversity as one the approaches to overcome malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. A key priority of the Second National Strategy for Transformation (NST2) is to tackle malnutrition and to reduce stunting rates among children. Therefore, using a household dietary diversity score as a proxy for household access to nutritious foods, this policy note outlines how commercialization impacts dietary diversity, with a focus on women and youth headed households. Key findings include: The rural smallholder farmers diet is predominantly based on cereals, roots and tubers as well as vegetables. Even when controlling for relevant variables, women do not have more diverse consumption patterns, however, they do, relative to male headed households, consume more diverse foods the greater their level of commercialization. Despite an overall lack of resources and income, youth-headed households show a positive relationship with household dietary diversity when compared to mature-headed households. Determinants that positively influence household dietary diversity include the level of commercialization, household non-farm assets, market access, education of the household head, the presence of children under five in the household, irrigation, land size, and livestock holdings.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMukangabo, Emerence; and Warner, James. 2025. Synopsis: Commercialization and dietary diversity of Rwandan smallholder farmers: a focus on women and youth headed households. Rwanda SSP Policy Note 19. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174068en
dcterms.extent7 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfRwanda SSP Policy Noteen
dcterms.issued2025-04en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173175en
dcterms.subjectstuntingen
dcterms.subjectdieten
dcterms.subjectchildrenen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjecttrace elementsen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectageen
dcterms.typeBriefen

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