Citation:

17 Kathryn G Dewey. 1990. Nutrition and agricultural change. Pages 459-480. In: C Ronald Carroll, John H Vandermeer, Peter Rosset (editors). Agroecology. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, 641 pages.

Keywords: case studies, Mexico, Jamaica, Peru, India, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Philippines, mechanisms by which agricultural change influences nutrition in rural households, economic effects, macro-level effects, micro-level effects, concentration of land among fewer owners, marginalization of peasant farmers, stratification of wealth, increased cash crop production affects local food availability and raising crop prices, micro-level effects, goals of subsistence farmers to minimize risk, and commercial farmers to gain profit, who controls production, replacement of food with cash, direct dietary effects from commercialization of agriculture, purchased food of lower nutritive value, social impact, reciprocal exchange, ecological impact, cash cropping leads to reduction of fallow periods, more extensive land clearing, large inputs of fertilizers and pesticides, safeguarding nutrition during agricultural change