Household consumption of infant foods in two low-income districts in Malawi

✍ Scribed by Levison Stanley Chiwaula; Ben M. Kaluwa

• Book ID: 102346885
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/jid.1448

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Household resource allocation to infant foods and infant care is investigated using data from 160 households in two low‐income districts in Malawi. Infant care is found to have a unitary budget and an inelastic price elasticity. While demand for two porridge types respond similarly to ingredients' price changes, adult meals substitute the porridges. Eradicating household income poverty; diversification of the household production, diet, infant food, and target recipients of infant nutritional information; widening the vitamin A fortification options; and targeting mothers of infants in work programmes are the proposed policy options. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.