Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages, Cooking-Time, Intrahousehold Equality Among Women and Children: Evidence from Tajikistan

Household-level agriculture-nutrition linkage (ANL) tends to be strong where food markets are imperfect. In such an environment, for cooking services may also Nutrition outcomes of household members, including intrahousehold inequality among women and children can depend on a household’s self-production services, provided both by labors, particularly women. Using the primary data in Tajikistan, we show that longer cooking-time often strengthens household-level ANL reduces nutritional children. These effects stronger areas with lower nighttime light intensity households values assets. context is strong, households’ complementary inputs, services. This dependence reveals unique opportunities vulnerabilities rural poor.