Synopsis: Seasonality and household diets in Ethiopia
Resource information
Date of publication
декабря 2014
ISBN / Resource ID
129506
Pages
2 pages
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The paper revisits seasonality by assessing how the quantity and quality of diets vary across agricultural seasons in rural and
urban Ethiopia. Using unique nationally representative household level data for each month over one calendar year, we document
seasonal fluctuations in household diets in terms of both the quantity of calories and the number of different food groups
consumed. Households in both rural and urban areas consume less calories in the lean season, but interestingly, due to
changes in the composition of diets, the diet diversity score increases towards the end of the lean season.
