Mélinda Smale|Mourad Moursi|Ekin Birol
How does adopting hybrid maize affect dietary diversity on family farms? Micro-evidence from Zambia
Michigan State University|International Food Policy Research Institute|International Food Policy Research Institute
maize dominates staple food zambia government many years promoted hybrid seed use order enhance food selfsufficiency poor rural families despite policy importance household nutrition zambia aware recent analyses related use hybrid seed diets among smallholder maize growers previous research demonstrated linkage indices dietary diversity healthy diets among women children estimate twostage instrumental variables poisson ordered logit regression models test association hybrid seed use four indicators dietary diversity food group diversity 24h vitamin diversity 7day food frequency 7day frequency consuming foods fortified vitamin 7day results robust econometric method indicator women interviewed maizegrowing households plant hybrid seed diverse diets