Heterogeneous impacts of home-gardening on household food and nutrition security in Rwanda.

ABSTRACT: This study examines farmers' decisions to engage in subsistence home-gardening and its impact on food and nutrition security among farm households in Rwanda under diverse conditions. The study uses a nationally representative dataset from Rwanda from 2012, 2015, and 2018. We employ an endogenous switching regression model to jointly estimate the drivers of home-gardening participation decisions and food and nutrition security outcomes, whiles accounting for selection bias from observable and unobservable factors. We also estimate the treatment effects of home-gardening participation on dietary diversity, food consumption score, and anthropometric markers of women and children. The treatment effects are calculated at sample means and connected to market-related variables, such as land owner

SUBMITTER: Issahaku G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9938516 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature