Household-level drivers of dietary diversity in transitioning agricultural systems: Evidence from the Greater Mekong Subregion

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationHanns R. Neumann Stiftungen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationRoyal University of Agriculture, Cambodiaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Laosen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWestern Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute, Vietnamen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationOlivet Nazarene Universityen_US
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken_US
cg.coverage.countryCambodiaen_US
cg.coverage.countryLaosen_US
cg.coverage.countryVietnamen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KHen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2LAen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2VNen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierSabine Douxchamps: 0000-0002-5286-0753en_US
cg.creator.identifierSimon Fraval: 0000-0002-2936-2537en_US
cg.creator.identifierMark van Wijk: 0000-0003-0728-8839en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102657en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn0308-521Xen_US
cg.journalAgricultural Systemsen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriNUTRITIONen_US
cg.volume176en_US
dc.contributor.authorRitzema, Randall S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDouxchamps, Sabineen_US
dc.contributor.authorFraval, Simonen_US
dc.contributor.authorBolliger, Adrian M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHok, L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPhengsavanh, P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLong, C.T.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHammond, Jamesen_US
dc.contributor.authorWijk, Mark T. vanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-06T20:48:13Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-08-06T20:48:13Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/102460en_US
dc.titleHousehold-level drivers of dietary diversity in transitioning agricultural systems: Evidence from the Greater Mekong Subregionen_US
dcterms.abstractOver the past four decades, agricultural systems in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have largely evolved from a subsistence orientation toward commercial production, but the multi-faceted changes behind this evolution vary in substance and degree. Despite connoting economic progress, effects of these changes on household welfare indicators such as dietary diversity have been unclear. By taking a comprehensive view of the farm household, this study discerns the drivers of household dietary diversity in this transitional context by linking the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS), as an indicator of dietary diversity, to key household characteristics, livelihood strategies and indicators of farm performance in three study sites in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) tool, a combined survey and analysis platform, was employed to collect data from over 1300 farm households. HDDS is found to increase among the sites in a way that is roughly associated with their state of agricultural transition, though differing combinations of market orientation, specialisation, and intensification traits that describe such a transition suggest that the pathway to commercialisation, and dietary diversity, is not a linear one. Drivers of dietary diversity vary markedly between the sites. In the Laos site, HDDS is most closely correlated to a set of variables closely linked with agricultural transition, while in the Cambodia site it is associated more with other farm and household characteristics. In the Vietnam site, dietary diversity is correlated to the overall value of crop production. Findings point to the need to contextualise site-specific knowledge of linkages between dietary diversity and ongoing agricultural transition in the GMS, as well as policy and interventions seeking to improve dietary diversity in the face of such transition.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRitzema, Randall S.; Douxchamps, Sabine; Fraval, Simon; Bolliger, A.; Hok, L.; Phengsavanh, P.; Long, C.T.M.; Hammond, James & van Wijk, Mark (2019). Household-level drivers of dietary diversity in transitioning agricultural systems: Evidence from the Greater Mekong Subregion. Agricultural Systems, 176:102657en_US
dcterms.extent176: 102657en_US
dcterms.issued2019-11en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectsmallholderen_US
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen_US
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen_US
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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