Research
Adherence
Off-farm income is a critical mechanism for smoothing food consumption and maintaining dietary diversity during the lean season.
Diversify your income sources. Do not rely solely on farm sales. Engage in off-farm activities (wage labor, small business) to generate cash for buying food, especially during the lean season when your own production is depleted.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
Evidently, off-farm income, which is often less affected by seasonality than farm income, is an effective mechanism to smooth food consumption in rural households.
Why this rating
Based on the same robust dataset.
Source
Rural food security, subsistence agriculture, and seasonality
Kibrom T. Sibhatu et al. · PLoS ONE · 2017
cross_sectional · n=10322Cited 321×
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