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
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationHanns R. Neumann Stiftungen
cg.contributor.affiliationRoyal University of Agriculture, Cambodiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Laosen
cg.contributor.affiliationWestern Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute, Vietnamen
cg.contributor.affiliationOlivet Nazarene Universityen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.coverage.countryCambodia
cg.coverage.countryLaos
cg.coverage.countryVietnam
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KH
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2LA
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2VN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierSabine Douxchamps: 0000-0002-5286-0753en
cg.creator.identifierSimon Fraval: 0000-0002-2936-2537en
cg.creator.identifierMark van Wijk: 0000-0003-0728-8839en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102657en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0308-521Xen
cg.journalAgricultural Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriNUTRITIONen
cg.volume176en
dc.contributor.authorRitzema, Randall S.en
dc.contributor.authorDouxchamps, Sabineen
dc.contributor.authorFraval, Simonen
dc.contributor.authorBolliger, Adrian M.en
dc.contributor.authorHok, L.en
dc.contributor.authorPhengsavanh, P.en
dc.contributor.authorLong, C.T.M.en
dc.contributor.authorHammond, Jamesen
dc.contributor.authorWijk, Mark T. vanen
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-06T20:48:13Zen
dc.date.available2019-08-06T20:48:13Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/102460
dc.titleHousehold-level drivers of dietary diversity in transitioning agricultural systems: Evidence from the Greater Mekong Subregionen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
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
dcterms.extent176: 102657en
dcterms.issued2019-11en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectsmallholderen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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