Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh

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作者
Ahmed, Akhter [1 ]
Coleman, Fiona [2 ]
Hoddinott, John [1 ,2 ,4 ,5 ]
Menon, Purnima [1 ]
Parvin, Aklima [1 ]
Pereira, Audrey [3 ]
Quisumbing, Agnes [1 ]
Roy, Shalini [1 ]
机构
[1] Int Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC USA
[2] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY USA
[3] Univ N Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[4] Cornell Univ, Charles H Dyson Sch Appl Econ & Management, Div Nutr Sci, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[5] Cornell Univ, Dept Global Dev, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
关键词
Extension agents; Community nutrition workers; Nutrition knowledge; Diet quality; Women's empowerment; Bangladesh; WOMENS EMPOWERMENT; FOOD SECURITY; BASE-LINE;
D O I
10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484
中图分类号
F3 [农业经济];
学科分类号
0202 ; 020205 ; 1203 ;
摘要
We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women's empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity, women's empowerment, and gender parity do not significantly differ between models where nutrition workers versus agriculture extension workers provide the training. The exception is in an attitudes score, where results indicate same-sex agents may affect scores differently than opposite-sex agents. Our results suggest opposite-sex agents may not necessarily be less effective in providing training. In South Asia, where agricultural extension systems and the pipeline to those systems are male -dominated, training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer a temporary solution to the shortage of fe-male extension workers and offer opportunities to scale and promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture. However, in both models, we find evidence that the presence of mothers-in-law within households modifies the programs' effectiveness on some nutrition, empowerment, and attitude measures, suggesting that accounting for other influential household members is a potential area for future programming.
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