Agriculture-nutrition linkages and child health in the presence of conflict in Nepal

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.coverage.countryNepal
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NP
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierYanyan Liu: 0000-0001-7553-2464
cg.creator.identifierXinshen Diao: 0000-0003-4843-1670
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1515en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorBageant, Elizabethen
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Yanyanen
dc.contributor.authorDiao, Xinshenen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:06:36Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:06:36Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146317
dc.titleAgriculture-nutrition linkages and child health in the presence of conflict in Nepalen
dcterms.abstractMuch policy and research attention has focused on the relationship between agriculture and nutrition. We extend this analysis to the context of Nepal’s decade-long civil conflict. Understanding how conflict or similar stress mitigates the agriculture-nutrition linkage is essential to developing impactful agriculture and nutrition policy in potential conflict zones. To our knowledge, there is no prior empirical work on the link between agriculture and nutrition in the context of conflict. We find a robust relationship between milk consumption and anthropometric outcomes. We also show a positive link between milk production and milk consumption at the household level. We find significant negative relationships between conflict and milk consumption for households owning few livestock while such relationships do not exist for larger holders. We attribute these heterogeneous effects to conflict-related productivity declines and milk price increases, both of which disproportionately affect households with fewer livestock and lower milk-production capacity. Among rural households in Nepal, milk production could serve as a nutritional buffer in times of conflict or other stress, and thus, policies that promote households’ livestock production could be effective measures in improving resilience of the rural poor against shocks that negatively affect child health outcomes.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBageant, Elizabeth; Liu, Yanyan; and Diao, Xinshen. 2016. Agriculture-nutrition linkages and child health in the presence of conflict in Nepal. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1515. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146317en
dcterms.extent40 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2016-03-18
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150998en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150519en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153937en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153397en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151289en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130219en
dcterms.subjectmilk productionen
dcterms.subjectshocken
dcterms.subjectmilken
dcterms.subjectnutrition policiesen
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.subjectagricultural policiesen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectchildrenen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectfood consumptionen
dcterms.subjectconflictsen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjectdairyen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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