SURE+ Interdisciplinary Workshop #16
Time: October 31st (Tuesday), 2023
Amsterdam Time: 09.00 – 10.00AM; Beijing Time: 16.00 – 17.00PM
Location: Virtual Online [Microsoft teams]
Program:
| Time | Program |
| 09.00 – 09.05 (NL)16.00 – 16.05 (CN) | IntroductionChair: Fan Li (associate professor, College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University) |
| 09.05 – 09.35 (NL)16.05 – 16.35 (CN) | Title: Off-farm employment, agriculture production activities, and household dietary diversity in environmentally and economically vulnerable areas of AsiaPresenter: Yunli Bai, Associate Professor in the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, ChinaAbstract: Access to off-farm employment has been expected to be one of important approaches to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, which are two important targets of achieving Zero Hunger. This study aims to investigate the role of off-farm employment in improving dietary diversity through substitution effect and complementary effect with agricultural production activities, and income effect. Using the primary survey data among 1282 households at 12 sites in environmentally and economically vulnerability areas of China, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar in 2019, both Poisson/Tobit/Probit/OLS regressions and Instrument variable methods are adopted for the empirical analysis. The results show that off-farm employment is positively associated with household dietary diversity and the consumption of flesh meat, fish and other aquatic animals, fruits, milk, and other dairy products, which are rich in protein and microelements. The results of mechanism analysis show that off-farm employment contributes to household dietary diversity by improving crop diversity, especially for the poor household, boosting the probability of livestock breeding for the household with middle 1/3 income, and increasing household income. The positive association between off-farm employment and household dietary diversity are much higher for the households with the bottom 1/3 disposal income, low illiteracy, and in the middle-high income countries. These findings imply that off-farm employment does play a vital role in achieving multiple benefits of poverty alleviation, malnutrition reduction, and agrobiodiversity conservation in environmentally and economically vulnerability areas. However, it may enlarge the gaps in dietary diversity between the households with low human capital and from low- middle countries and those with high human capital and from middle-high countries. |
| 09.35 – 09.55 (NL)16.35 – 16.55 (CN) | DiscussionDiscussant: Chen Qian (Assistant Researcher at Institute of Agricultural and Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing) |
| 09.55 – 10.00 (NL)16.55 – 17.00 (CN) | Conclusion and closing remarks |
For future presentation, please contact Fan Li (fan.li@wur.nl) , Chen Qian (qianchen@caas.cn) and Mengru Wang (Mengru.wang@wur.nl). To access the virtual meeting, please click the link above or type in the following information on MS Teams: Teams Meeting ID: 348 498 957 223 Passcode: z2ot7p
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Best regards,
Fan Li on behalf of the SuReFood executive team
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