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The ‘Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women’ (MDD-W) Indicator is related to household food insecurity and farm production diversity: Evidence from rural Mali

author(s) Adubra, Laura - Savy, Mathilde - Fortin, Sonia - Kameli, Yves - Kodjo, Niamké Ezoua - Fainke, Kamayera - Mahamadou, Tanimoune - Le Port, Agnes - Martin-Prevel, Yves
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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themes
regions
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
citation

Adubra, Laura et al., 'The ‘Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women’ (MDD-W) Indicator is related to household food insecurity and farm production diversity: Evidence from rural Mali', Current Developments in Nutrition, vol. 3(3):nzz002, p. nzz002, Elsevier BV, 2019

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Abstract

With the aim of contributing to this emerging literature, we investigated: (i) how MDD-W is linked to household food insecurity based on the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and on the Household Hunger Scale (HHS); (ii) how MDD-W is linked to farm production diversity; and (iii) whether contextual factors such as household wealth status modify these relationships. As a secondary objective, we also checked whether all of these associations held, or not, when the number of food groups consumed was used as a continuous variable, in order to conclude on the cost of dichotomization.

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