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

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dc.creatorAhmed, Akhter
dc.creatorColeman, Fiona M.
dc.creatorHoddinott, John F.
dc.creatorMenon, Purnima
dc.creatorParvin, Aklima
dc.creatorPereira, Audrey
dc.creatorQuisumbing, Agnes R.
dc.creatorRoy, Shalini
dc.date2022-12-14
dc.date2023-01-17T08:14:00Z
dc.date2023-01-17T08:14:00Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:23:14Z
dc.descriptionWe 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 female extension workers and offer opportunities to scale promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/127255
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/102848
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9789845063715_14
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146775
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135845
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133872
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146314
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAhmed, Akhter; Coleman, Fiona; Hoddinott, John F.; Menon, Purnima; Parvin, Aklima; Pereira, Audrey; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Roy, Shalini. 2022. Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2149. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136473.
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectagricultural workers
dc.subjectdiet
dc.subjectdietary diversity
dc.subjectdiet quality
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectgender analysis
dc.subjectgender norms
dc.subjectgender relations
dc.subjectmen
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectnutrition knowledge
dc.subjectnutrition research
dc.subjectrural areas
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectwomen's empowerment
dc.subjectattitudes
dc.subjectagricultural products
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.titleComparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh
dc.typeWorking Paper

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