Ziyuan Kexue (Aug 2023)

The impact of income quality on the diet quality of farming households:Empirical analysis based on a survey in Shaanxi Province

  • ZHAO Yinyu, FANG Feifan, HAN Xinru

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18402/resci.2023.08.05
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 45, no. 8
pp. 1546 – 1559

Abstract

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[Objective] In the context of the diminishing marginal effect of income quantity on diet quality, exploring the effect of income quality on the diet quality of farming households helps to address the bottleneck issue in the effect of income quality on diet quality improvement and provides a basis for the formulation of diet quality improvement measures. [Methods] Using the survey data of 510 farming households in Shaanxi Province in 2022, this study first measured the income quality of farming households by using the entropy value method from five dimensions: income quantity, structure, stability, cost involved, and contribution of knowledge. Second, the diet quality of farming households was evaluated by examining the deviation of actual food intake from recommended intake. On this basis, the impact of income quality on the diet quality of farming households and its heterogeneity were analyzed empirically. [Results] The improvement of income quality significantly improved the diet quality of farming households, reduced the deviation of cereals and potatoes, eggs, aquatic products, legumes, and nuts intake from the recommended intake of dietary pagoda, optimized the dietary structure, and significantly improved the diet quality of farming households, and the effect of income quality on the diet quality of low-income farming households was more obvious. [Conclusion] Enhancing the income quality of farming households is an important way to break through the bottleneck of improving the diet quality. It is recommended to improve the income quality of farming households by increasing income sources, strengthening skills training, promoting agricultural insurance and improving the medical insurance system, so as to improve the diet quality of farming households. And in the process of policy formulation, it is necessary to favor low-income groups and establish a more diversified food supply system.

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