Effect of Intensive Agriculture-Nutrition Education and Extension Program Adoption and Diffusion of Biofortified Crops

Abstract

Biofortification of staple crops to combat micronutrient deficiencies is gaining global recognition. Projects promoting biofortified food crops use intensive agriculture-nutrition

Biofortified Crops for Combating Hidden Hunger in South Africa: Availability, Acceptability, Micronutrient Retention and Bioavailability

“…Projects aimed at promoting biofortified crops need to utilise intensive nutrition education and extension activities [ 133 ]. The important platforms that can be used to increase the adoption and awareness of biofortified crops, while targeting nutritionally vulnerable populations, include nutrition educational programmes held at health clinics and in homes [ 134 ]. This would involve discussing nutrition messages in the form of health talks at clinics, which are vital in reaching target populations, especially at ante-and post-natal clinics.…”

Do Nutrition Education Approaches With Preschoolers and Their Caregivers Influence Retention of Biofortified Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato on Farms? Evidence From Homa Bay County, Kenya

“…In essence, the probability of a caregiver deciding to replant the OFSP is a function of the interventions (PT, IT, and CT with the control group as the reference group) and the control variables as drawn from OFSP adoption literature. 15,28,29 The controls include the size of OFSP plot in the first season, Y v(t-1)b ; a vector of child, caregiver, household, and village level characteristics, X iv ; and subcounty fixed effects, λ b . Notations β 1 to β 5 represent the parameter estimates of the regressors, while, ε iv refers to the random error term adjusted at the village cluster levels.…”

“…Also, the county was of special interest as it hosted a large project that aimed at scaling up the production and consumption of OFSP to reduce the high incidence of malnutrition. 15 More than half the population of under 2-year old children in the county are chronically malnourished. 16 Early Childhood Development and Education centers in Kenya are managed by the county governments.…”

Do Market-oriented Engendered Agriculture-health Interventions Affect Household Nutrition Outcomes: Evidence from an Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Project in Rwanda

“…In particular, over the last decade, there has been a surge in interventions that deploy nutritious biofortified staple food crops along with differing degrees of nutrition education targeting such households. Some of these interventions use food-basket and nutrition education approaches geared at increasing the consumption of diverse diets that incorporate the nutritious biofortified crops (Mutiso et al 2018;Okello et al 2019). Others focus on the development of commercial value chains in which smallholder farmers are linked to private sector processing firms to boost their incomes and improve household welfare (Okello et al 2019).…”

“…Some of these interventions use food-basket and nutrition education approaches geared at increasing the consumption of diverse diets that incorporate the nutritious biofortified crops (Mutiso et al 2018;Okello et al 2019). Others focus on the development of commercial value chains in which smallholder farmers are linked to private sector processing firms to boost their incomes and improve household welfare (Okello et al 2019). The majority of these interventions target vulnerable rural farm households, especially female and male caregivers of young children pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, with the goal of tackling the often high micronutrient deficiency among such household members (Shikuku et al 2019) or avoiding the exclusion of women in the value chain as it commercializes (World Bank, 2012; Katungi, Kabungo, and Mukankusi 2019).…”