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Urban Agriculture and Dietary Diversity: Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

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  • Luca Tasciotti

    (Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands)

  • Natascha Wagner

    (Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands)

Abstract

The recent increases in food prices have been dramatic. In Tanzania, average prices for key food items climbed at least 50 per cent between 2007 and 2009; rising prices had a significant effect on Tanzania’s growing group of urban poor as their food budget share amounts to 67 per cent. This article studies the effects of practicing agriculture in urban Tanzania on indicators of dietary diversity, quantifying the share of urban dwellers engaged in urban agriculture and assessing the importance of urban agriculture in ensuring food diversity. Results suggest that households engaged in urban agriculture have a more diversified diet: they increase the variety of (i) meat, fish and eggs by 10 per cent, (ii) dairy products by at least 16 per cent and (iii) fruits and vegetables by up to 9 per cent. The urban poor is the group that profits most from the dietary diversification relative to richer households.

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  • Luca Tasciotti & Natascha Wagner, 2015. "Urban Agriculture and Dietary Diversity: Empirical Evidence from Tanzania," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 27(5), pages 631-649, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:27:y:2015:i:5:p:631-649
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    1. Katharina Lehmann-Uschner & Kati Kraehnert, 2017. "Food Intake and the Role of Food Self-Provisioning," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(8), pages 1303-1322, August.
    2. Navjot Sangwan & Luca Tasciotti, 2023. "Losing the Plot: The Impact of Urban Agriculture on Household Food Expenditure and Dietary Diversity in Sub-Saharan African Countries," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-20, January.
    3. Hirsch, Darya & Meyer, Christian & Klement, Johannes & Hamer, Martin & Terlau, Wiltrud, 2016. "Urban AgriCulture and Food Systems Dynamics: Urban Gardening and Urban Farming of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg region, Germany," 2016 International European Forum (151st EAAE Seminar), February 15-19, 2016, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria 244536, International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks.
    4. Daniel A. Mekonnen & Elise F. Talsma & Laura Trijsburg & Vincent Linderhof & Thom Achterbosch & Aafke Nijhuis & Ruerd Ruben & Inge D. Brouwer, 2020. "Can household dietary diversity inform about nutrient adequacy? Lessons from a food systems analysis in Ethiopia," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 12(6), pages 1367-1383, December.
    5. Hirsch, Darya & Meyer, Christian & Klement, Johannes & Hamer, Martin & Terlau, Wiltrud, 2016. "Urban AgriCulture and Food Systems Dynamics in the German Bonn/Rhein-Sieg Region," International Journal on Food System Dynamics, International Center for Management, Communication, and Research, vol. 7(4), pages 1-19, July.

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