A home-production based approach to improve nutritional outcomes of children in rural areas
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Using detailed data from two nationally representative secondary and a primary dataset, we
will investigate if home-production of food crops can help improve the nutritional status of
children and their mothers. We also intend to assess if these households can better absorb the
adverse effects of a shock. We will establish causality by complementing the results from the
secondary datasets with a well-designed Randomized Control Trial (currently ongoing and
fully funded) that will encourage women in treated households to raise a kitchen garden in
their backyards. If the intervention is found to be effective in improving nutritional outcomes,
the proposed idea could offer a scalable and cost-effective tool to the policymakers to combat
malnutrition and mitigate shocks in other resource poor setting.
