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.date2023-07
dc.date2023-08-08T09:33:08Z
dc.date2023-08-08T09:33:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:08:45Z
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 fe male extension workers and offer opportunities to scale and promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture. However, in both models, we find evidence that the presence of mothers-in-law within households modifies the programs’ effectiveness on some nutrition, empowerment, and attitude measures, suggesting that accounting for other influential household members is a potential area for future programming.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/131469
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/95890
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136473
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAhmed, Akhter; Coleman, Fiona; Hoddinott, John F.; Menon, Purnima; Parvin, Aklima; Pereira, Audrey; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; and Roy, Shalini. 2023. Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh. Food Policy 118(July 2023): 102484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102484
dc.subjectrural areas
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectadvisory officers
dc.subjectdiet quality
dc.subjectknowledge sharing
dc.subjectintervention
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.titleComparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh
dc.typeJournal Article

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