Women's Nutrition Through an Empowerment Lens
LCIRAH, June 2016.
Household consumption and expenditure surveys
Formative Research Sheds Light on Agriculture's Potential Impact on Nutrition in Guatemala
SPRING’s formative research to understand factors affecting household-level food purchase and production decisions in Guatemala’s Western Highlands provides insight into how agricultural investments in Guatemala can improve nutrition. To stress the agriculture and nutrition connection, we have introduced conceptual pathways providing a summary of the current state of knowledge for leveraging agriculture to improve nutrition.
Estimating the Impact of Vitamin A-fortified Vegetable Oil in Bangladesh in the Absence of Dietary Assessment Data
John L Fiedler, Keith Lividini and Odilia I Bermudez. Estimating the impact of vitamin A-fortified vegetable oil in Bangladesh in the absence of dietary assessment data. Public Health Nutrition, available on CJO2014. doi:10.1017/S1368980014000640.
Vitamin A deficiency is a serious health problem in Bangladesh. In the absence of nationally-representative, individual dietary assessment data, the authors used household income and expenditure survey (HCES) data to estimate the potential impact of the introduction of vitamin A-fortified vegetable oil in Bangladesh.
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture, Production Diversity, and Nutrition: Evidence from Nepal
IFPRI Discussion Paper 01313 (2013)
Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys
Understanding food consumption patterns and nutrient intakes is essential for informing evidence-based food and nutrition policies, yet there is a lack of accurate and reliable data. Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES)—a collective term for multipurpose household surveys—provide an inexpensive and readily available source for filling this information gap.