Agricultural commercialization and nutrition: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmers

Simple item page
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorInnovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actionsen
cg.coverage.countryGuatemalaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GTen
cg.coverage.regionLatin Americaen
cg.coverage.regionCentral Americaen
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Americaen
cg.creator.identifierJoanna Van Asselt: 0000-0002-0090-6166en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106021en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC)en
cg.identifier.publicationRankAen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0305-750Xen
cg.issueNovember 2022en
cg.journalWorld Developmenten
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume159en
dc.contributor.authorvan Asselt, Joannaen
dc.contributor.authorUseche, Pilaren
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-12T13:37:23Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-12T13:37:23Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141164
dc.titleAgricultural commercialization and nutrition: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmersen
dcterms.abstractAgricultural commercialization, or the transition from growing crops for home consumption to growing some or all crops for sale, enables farmers to earn cash income that they can use to buy food in markets. This additional income may enable smallholders to purchase more healthy and/or unhealthy calories in the market, impacting their nutrition. While previous studies have examined the impact of commercialization on undernutrition, this study analyzes the impact of commercialization on overweight and obesity. Survey data from smallholder coffee farmers in rural Guatemala is used to estimate the impact of commercialization on body mass index for male and female household heads. Additionally, we explore the different pathways through which commercialization can impact nutrition, including household calorie availability, crop production, income, and gender. The empirical analysis employs an instrumental variable approach to control for endogeneity issues. Our estimation results suggest that commercialization, both in general and through dependence on coffee, leads to overweight and obesity in more commercialized households. Further, our analysis shows that while there is no relationship between commercialization of crops in general and household calorie availability, coffee dependence lowers household calorie availability. We also find that coffee dependent households decrease their production diversity and do not earn more agricultural income, both of which may negatively contribute to their nutrition. As rural areas become increasingly integrated with markets, understanding the transmission channels between agricultural commercialization and nutrition is critical.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationvan Asselt, Joanna; and Useche, Pilar. 2022. Agricultural commercialization and nutrition: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmers. World Development 159(November 2022): 106021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106021en
dcterms.issued2022-11-01en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8300en
dcterms.subjectincomeen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectbody weighten
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectcoffeeen
dcterms.subjectcommercializationen
dcterms.subjectoverweighten
dcterms.subjectobesityen
dcterms.subjectagricultural tradeen
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen

Files

Collections

IFPRI Journal Articles