• Login
    View Item 
    •   UNZA Repository Home
    • Theses and Dissertations
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • View Item
    •   UNZA Repository Home
    • Theses and Dissertations
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    The effects of farmer access to credit on dietrary diversity in Zambia.

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Main Document.PDF (564.5Kb)
    Date
    2020
    Author
    Shiyenge, Mambwe
    Type
    Thesis
    Language
    en
    Metadata
    Show full item record

    Abstract
    Farmer access to credit is one of the financial solutions for addressing malnutrition, having been extensively researched in several countries with multiple studies concluding that access to credit has the potential to improve a smallholder household’s dietary diversity and ultimately reduce malnutrition. However, limited literature exists to clarify this association in Zambia. To address the knowledge gap and understand this association. The study examined how farmer access to credit affects Zambia’s dietary diversity. The study used an instrumental variable approach where Loan society membership and the Headman/Headwoman’s relation to the household head are instrumental variables on data collected from the Rural Agricultural Livelihood Survey (RALS) of 2015, which covered 7934 agricultural households from 10 provinces. The results indicate that smallholder household’s that accessed credit consumed at a significantly higher dietary diversity compared to otherwise, with a difference of 0.352units at a p-value=0.040. However, these results are limited to smallholder households that are also likely to receive FISP. At the same time, education attainment to secondary and tertiary levels lowered a household’s dietary diversity than no years spent in formal education with a significant difference of 0.119 and 0.221units, respectively. At a p-value=0.013 for secondary education and p-value=0.004 for tertiary education attainment. The study suggests that access to agricultural credit can improve a household’s dietary diversity. Whereas increasing the number of families pursuing higher education attainment enhances the household’s nutritional awareness and preference to consume various food groups. The study further suggests that measures to promote the financial inclusion of smallholder farmers in agricultural credit are crucial. Though further research is needed to identify the long term effect of credit access on household dietary diversity.
    URI
    http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/7335
    Publisher
    The University of Zambia
    Subject
    Agriculture and state--Zambia.
    Farmer Input Support Programme--Zambia.
    Description
    Thesis
    Collections
    • Humanities and Social Sciences [911]

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    UNZA homepage | UNZA Library | Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of UNZA RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    UNZA homepage | UNZA Library | Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV