Homegarden diversity and food security in southern Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Home gardens are recognised in the literature for their contribution to food security, yet the process by which agrobiodiversity and household characteristics mediate this relationship is less well understood. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by drawing on a multi-site case study in the Yucatán region in Mexico. By applying regression analysis, the significance of the association between home garden diversity and food security is confirmed. Plant diversity is found to have a positive association with food consumption scores and the frequency of vegetable intakes. The number of animals used for food purposes is also found to have positive and significant associations with food consumption scores and frequency of meat intakes. However, the dimension and the significance of th

SUBMITTER: Castaneda-Navarrete J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7881320 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature