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 Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Research
cg.contributor.affiliationHanns R. Neumann Stiftung
cg.contributor.affiliationRoyal University of Agriculture, Cambodia
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Laos
cg.contributor.affiliationWestern Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute, Vietnam
cg.contributor.affiliationOlivet Nazarene University
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: 0000-0002-5286-0753
cg.creator.identifierSimon Fraval: 0000-0002-2936-2537
cg.creator.identifierMark van Wijk: 0000-0003-0728-8839
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102657
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn0308-521X
cg.journalAgricultural Systems
cg.number102657
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.ilriNUTRITION
cg.volume176
dc.contributor.authorRitzema, Randall S.
dc.contributor.authorDouxchamps, Sabine
dc.contributor.authorFraval, Simon
dc.contributor.authorBolliger, Adrian M.
dc.contributor.authorHok, L.
dc.contributor.authorPhengsavanh, P.
dc.contributor.authorLong, C.T.M.
dc.contributor.authorHammond, James
dc.contributor.authorWijk, Mark T. van
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.audienceScientists
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.issued2019-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevier
dcterms.subjectsmallholderen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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