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Developing countries’ food systems are experiencing rapid transformations led by modern food retail market (MFRM) channels such as supermarkets, fast food firms, hotels, and convenience stores. This paper analyzes the impact of these channels on farm households’ dietary diversity with survey data from Southeast Nigeria. Estimates from the instrumental variable model show that participation in MFRM is associated with a significant increase in dietary diversity. Furthermore, the linkages through which MFRM participation impacts dietary diversity are analyzed using seemingly unrelated regression. Poultry farm income, consumption of poultry products produced by the farmer, and area of vegetable cultivated using poultry droppings have positive association with dietary diversity, while male controlled poultry farm revenue has negative association with dietary quality. Our study provides useful insights that poultry farm managers would find helpful. It also serves as a potential source of information for policymakers for planning as it links smallholder poultry farmers’ participation in modern food retail markets to improved nutrition.
Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke; Chukwuemeka Chinonso Emenekwe; Nneka Maris Chidiebere-Mark; Jane Onuabuchi Munonye; Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe; Clementina Kanu; Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu; Chukwudi Loveday Njoku; Uwazie Iyke Uwazie; Christian Obioma Uwadoka; Gillian Chidozie Azuamairo. Impact of Poultry Farmers’ Participation in Modern Food Retail Markets on Household Dietary Diversity: Lessons from Southeast Nigeria. Animals 2020, 10, 611 .
AMA StyleRobert Ugochukwu Onyeneke, Chukwuemeka Chinonso Emenekwe, Nneka Maris Chidiebere-Mark, Jane Onuabuchi Munonye, Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe, Clementina Kanu, Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu, Chukwudi Loveday Njoku, Uwazie Iyke Uwazie, Christian Obioma Uwadoka, Gillian Chidozie Azuamairo. Impact of Poultry Farmers’ Participation in Modern Food Retail Markets on Household Dietary Diversity: Lessons from Southeast Nigeria. Animals. 2020; 10 (4):611.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRobert Ugochukwu Onyeneke; Chukwuemeka Chinonso Emenekwe; Nneka Maris Chidiebere-Mark; Jane Onuabuchi Munonye; Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe; Clementina Kanu; Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu; Chukwudi Loveday Njoku; Uwazie Iyke Uwazie; Christian Obioma Uwadoka; Gillian Chidozie Azuamairo. 2020. "Impact of Poultry Farmers’ Participation in Modern Food Retail Markets on Household Dietary Diversity: Lessons from Southeast Nigeria." Animals 10, no. 4: 611.
This paper studies a topic in the triangle of environment, development and health-the effectiveness of the improved cooking solution. While a range of improved cook-stoves (ICS) is available in the market, since decades with a number of new entrants from recent years, adoption is still low in many developing regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, also because stove performance is sometimes found to be deficient. However, in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, few improved cook-stove interventions are on-going. Incidentally, there is little evidence on the effect of improved cook-stoves on different components of health and environmental outcomes in rural Nigeria. This study, using cross-sectional data from Cross River State, the State with the largest forest area in the country, analyzed the impacts of locally designed improved cook-stoves on the environmental and health outcomes of rural women. A sample of four hundred (400) married women was drawn from eight rural communities with the highest concentration of improved cook-stove users. The woman in-charge of cooking in each household was the respondent. Also, in each household, the household head (if different from the primary cook) was interviewed. Using inverse propensity score weighting for data analysis, we found significant fuel and time savings from the adoption of the cook-stove. However, this study found no evidence of the reduction of indoor air pollution associated diseases given stove design and users' behavior. This underscores the need to revisit the design of the stove and consider users' cooking behavior in the design.
Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke; Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba; Jane Munonye; Uwazie Iyke Uwazie; Nkechinyere Uwajumogu; Christian Obioma Uwadoka; Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe. Improved Cook-stoves and Environmental and Health Outcomes: Lessons from Cross River State, Nigeria. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 3520 .
AMA StyleRobert Ugochukwu Onyeneke, Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba, Jane Munonye, Uwazie Iyke Uwazie, Nkechinyere Uwajumogu, Christian Obioma Uwadoka, Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe. Improved Cook-stoves and Environmental and Health Outcomes: Lessons from Cross River State, Nigeria. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (19):3520.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRobert Ugochukwu Onyeneke; Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba; Jane Munonye; Uwazie Iyke Uwazie; Nkechinyere Uwajumogu; Christian Obioma Uwadoka; Jonathan Ogbeni Aligbe. 2019. "Improved Cook-stoves and Environmental and Health Outcomes: Lessons from Cross River State, Nigeria." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 19: 3520.
Empirical evidence is scanty on the nexus between caregivers’ nutrition knowledge, market accessibility, and preschool children’s dietary diversity in remote communities of Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria. To fill this gap, this study evaluated the effects of caregivers’ nutrition knowledge and access to food market on dietary diversity of preschool children. We used cross-sectional data from four hundred households selected from twenty remote communities in Southeast Nigeria. The study adopted instrumental variable regression to estimate the impacts of nutrition knowledge and food market access on preschool children’s dietary diversity. The findings show that in remote communities, caregivers’ nutrition knowledge and households’ closeness to the market improved preschool children’s dietary diversity. The study demonstrates the potential of improving preschool children’s nutrition outcomes through enhancing access to food market and the nutrition knowledge of the caregivers.
Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke; Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba; Christiana Ogonna Igberi; Mark Umunna Amadi; Francis Chidi Anosike; Anthony Oko-Isu; Jane Munonye; Christian Uwadoka; Adewale Iyaniwura Adeolu. Impacts of Caregivers’ Nutrition Knowledge and Food Market Accessibility on Preschool Children’s Dietary Diversity in Remote Communities in Southeast Nigeria. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1688 .
AMA StyleRobert Ugochukwu Onyeneke, Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba, Christiana Ogonna Igberi, Mark Umunna Amadi, Francis Chidi Anosike, Anthony Oko-Isu, Jane Munonye, Christian Uwadoka, Adewale Iyaniwura Adeolu. Impacts of Caregivers’ Nutrition Knowledge and Food Market Accessibility on Preschool Children’s Dietary Diversity in Remote Communities in Southeast Nigeria. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (6):1688.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRobert Ugochukwu Onyeneke; Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba; Christiana Ogonna Igberi; Mark Umunna Amadi; Francis Chidi Anosike; Anthony Oko-Isu; Jane Munonye; Christian Uwadoka; Adewale Iyaniwura Adeolu. 2019. "Impacts of Caregivers’ Nutrition Knowledge and Food Market Accessibility on Preschool Children’s Dietary Diversity in Remote Communities in Southeast Nigeria." Sustainability 11, no. 6: 1688.