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.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeNational Policies and Strategies
cg.coverage.countryRwanda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2RW
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierEmerence Mukangabo: 0009-0003-3657-3791
cg.creator.identifierJames Warner: 0000-0002-5768-3004
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Rwanda Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Unit
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number16en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
dc.contributor.authorMukangabo, Emerenceen
dc.contributor.authorWarner, Jamesen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-18T16:13:32Zen
dc.date.available2025-02-18T16:13:32Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173175
dc.titleCommercialization and dietary diversity of Rwandan smallholder farmers: A focus on women and youth headed householdsen
dcterms.abstractUsing a household dietary diversity score as a proxy for household access to nutritious foods, this paper assesses the relationship between commercialization and nutritional outcomes of Rwandan smallholder farmers, with a particular emphasis on women and youth headed households. The results indicate that commercialization has a strong, positive effect on household dietary diversity but mixed results between sub-categories of households. For instance, male-headed households have higher overall dietary diversity compared to female-headed ones, but much of that variation can be explained by higher asset ownership and income. However, relative to male headed households, female headed households appear to respond to increasing levels of commercialization by consuming more diverse foods, an insight that could be useful for targeted interventions. Importantly, youth-headed households exhibit greater household dietary diversity than those households headed by older individuals, despite having both lower levels of assets and crop commercialization. General 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 use, land size, and livestock holdings. The goal of this research is to enable policy makers to better identify the drivers of household dietary consumption, particularly among more vulnerable households, and how to encourage a more diverse diet for better nutritional outcomes.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMukangabo, Emerence; and Warner, James. 2025. Commercialization and dietary diversity of Rwandan smallholder farmers: A focus on women and youth headed households. Rwanda SSP Working Paper 16. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173175en
dcterms.extent30 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfRwanda SSP Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2025-02-18
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen
dcterms.subjectcommercializationen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectyouthen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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