Mother’s nutrition-related knowledge and child nutrition outcomes: Empirical evidence from Nigeria

Nutrition outcomes among young children in Nigeria are among the worse globally. Mother’s limited knowledge about food choices, feeding, and health care seeking practices contributes significantly to negative nutrition outcomes for children in most developing countries. Much less is known about the relationship between mother’s nutrition-related knowledge and child nutritional outcomes in rural Nigeria. This paper investigates therefore: (i) the association of mother’s nutrition-related knowledge with nutrition outcomes of young children living in rural Nigeria, where access to education is limited, and (ii) whether mother’s education has a complementary effect on such knowledge in producing positive child nutrition outcomes in such settings.PRIFPRI3; ISI; Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project; NSSP; CRP2DSGD; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM