Comparative Analyses of the Effects of Increased Commercialization of Subsistence Agriculture on Production, Consumption, and Nutrition

摘要

The report investigates the effects of the commercialization of agriculture on household-level food security and nutrition. The research was conducted on households in the Gambia, Guatamala, Kenya, the Philippines, Malawi, and Rwanda. The findings are organized around three broad topics of concern: the effects of increased commercialization on: food production, employment, and income; food and nonfood expenditure behavior; and the nutritional and health status of individual household members as outcomes of changes in income, organization of resources, and food and nonfood expenditure behavior. It begins by presenting the common conceptual framework used in all six case studies as a basis for determining what data were collected and how these data were analyzed. It provides summaries of the specific study setting in each case study country and the characteristics of and procedures used for selecting respondent households. It concludes with an analysis of the production, consumption, and nutrition effects of commercialization and draws the final policy conclusions.