Huang Yanfang, Yang Yuying, Nie Fengying, Jia Xiangping
Institute of Agricultural Information, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
Foods. 2024 Mar 1;13(5):771. doi: 10.3390/foods13050771.
Given the 'subsistence' character of smallholder production, agricultural production diversification is often seen as an effective strategy for smallholders to improve their diets' diversity and nutritional status, yet the existing evidence remains inadequate. The study applies bibliometric data from the "Web of Science" database to synthesize 46 papers from developing countries to explore the relationship between production diversity, dietary diversity, and nutrition in smallholder households. The study identifies the most influential journals, authors, organizations, and countries and reveals research themes related to agricultural production and food security. This data analysis can help researchers target potential collaborators and access influential literature in agricultural production diversity and dietary diversity research. In addition, the results showed that agricultural production diversity potentially influences households' dietary diversity, with mixed results: Agricultural production diversification is the primary way to improve food and nutritional security among smallholder families with low socio-economic status, inaccessible transportation, and poverty; market access and trade have more potential to improve dietary diversity among smallholder households with well-developed markets and higher income levels; the significant measures of agricultural production diversity include Crop Counts, FGPD, SI, and SWDI; the significant measures of dietary diversity include HDDS and IDDS. This paper provides a roadmap for agricultural production and food security researchers by conducting a systematic review of the literature, summarizing some research methods and perspectives applicable to local socio-economic development.
鉴于小农生产的“维持生计”特性，农业生产多样化常被视为小农改善其饮食多样性和营养状况的有效策略，但现有证据仍不充分。该研究运用来自“科学网”数据库的文献计量数据，综合了来自发展中国家的46篇论文，以探讨小农家庭生产多样性、饮食多样性和营养之间的关系。该研究确定了最具影响力的期刊、作者、组织和国家，并揭示了与农业生产和粮食安全相关的研究主题。这种数据分析有助于研究人员确定潜在的合作者，并获取农业生产多样性和饮食多样性研究方面的有影响力的文献。此外，结果表明，农业生产多样性可能会影响家庭的饮食多样性，结果好坏参半：农业生产多样化是改善社会经济地位低、交通不便且贫困的小农家庭粮食和营养安全的主要途径；市场准入和贸易在改善市场发达、收入水平较高的小农家庭饮食多样性方面更具潜力；农业生产多样性的重要衡量指标包括作物种类数、功能食品多样性指数、辛普森指数和香农-维纳多样性指数；饮食多样性的重要衡量指标包括家庭食物多样性得分和个体食物多样性得分。本文通过对文献进行系统综述，为农业生产和粮食安全研究人员提供了一条路线图，总结了一些适用于当地社会经济发展的研究方法和观点。
