Linkages Between Agricultural Extension Policies and Nutrition Outcomes - Daniel Bruce Sarpong

The changes stated by Hoddinott (2011) call for agricultural transformation to impact on household technology adoption in new crop and livestock varieties and production practices, and empowering women in agricultural households to provide an opportunity to improve the productivity and diversity of agricultural production as well as the income of households, and through the availability and consum. [...] Figure 1: Agricultural extension mechanisms, agricultural production and nutritional outcomes Linkages Between agricuLturaL extension PoLicies and nutrition outcomes 5 Household nutritional status is the result of a combination of time, physical assets and knowledge of good nutritional practices, and together with health status and the consumption of food in terms of quantity, quality and diversit. [...] Food production alone is not sufficient to determine the health and nutrition of all – the type and quality of food produced, access to the right types and quantities of food, and the distribution of food within the household also matter (IFPRI, 2021). [...] They indicate that the core objective of the FISP has been to increase access to improved agricultural inputs by resource poor smallholder farmers in order to increase food and cash crop production and achieve food self-sufficiency and high incomes, and that the programme would contribute to food security and nutrition security in Malawi by increasing the availability of food and access to nutriti. [...] The focus of Mujeyi and Mutambara’s (2018) analysis of Zimbabwe is the impact of redistributive land reform policy on women’s nutritional status, with particular focus on the minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W) in rural smallholder farming households, premised on the hypothesis that improving access to adequate and better-quality agricultural land enhances the diversity and increases the a.