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Nexus of Agricultural Policies and Nutrition Outcomes: Linkages Between Land Access Policies and

9 Nov 2022

In addition to assessing the association between nutritional outcomes and land policy-induced farm sizes, this paper also scrutinizes the nutrition-sensitivity difference between land policies that aim to unlock the availability of land resources using market systems, and those that aim to increase the share of landowners through the nationalization of land. [...] The food production function of the farming household is therefore expressed as: (4) where is the produced output of food by household i, is the agricultural land available for household i, and is a vector of other inputs used by household i in food production. [...] The paper describes the association between the prevalence of malnutrition and arable land size, and access to land in SSA countries. [...] The number of nurses and midwives per thousand in the population is a good indicator of the strength of the health system in a country. [...] The simple model for measuring the association between malnutrition and arable land is: (9) where Mal is a measure of malnutrition prevalence (height for age and weight for age), AL is arable land that measures access to agricultural land, HS is the health sector status proxied by the number of nurses and midwives per 1,000 in the population, and ε is the error term assumed to be independently and.
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28
Published in
Kenya

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