Home gardening as a sustainable nutrition and livelihood strategy: Farmers perspectives in rural Tanzania.
Malnutrition and food insecurity are major problems faced by most of the developing countries including Tanzania. Foods with high nutrient content (animal, vegetables, and fruits) are difficult to find in the poorer rural areas where most people are dependent on staple foods with little diversity. Home gardens play an important role in fulfilling dietary and nutritional needs. If production is diversified with more species and managed well, home gardens can increase dietary diversity. This study sought to investigate the perceptions and practices by farmers on how home gardening can be transformed into a sustainable nutrition and livelihood strategy in order to come up with information not only on socio-economic sustainability but also on the environmental sustainability of home gardens in rural Tanzania.
