Promoting traditional foods for human and environmental health: lessons from agroecology and Indigenous communities in Ecuador

Table 2 Correlates of traditional food practices

	TF Production Diversity	TF Consumption Diversity	TF Consumption Frequency	Wild Food Consumption Diversity
Traditional food (TF) practices
TF consumption diversity	0.61***
TF consumption frequency	0.33***	0.51***
Wild food consumption diversity	–	0.30***	–
Sociodemographics
Age	0.24**	–	–	–
Monthly income per capita	−0.21**	–	0.28***	–
Time to market	–	–	–	–
Education completed	–	–	0.25*	–
Farmer category (agroecological)	0.54***	0.57***	0.35***	–
Farm Production Diversity	0.58***	0.51***	0.40***	0.24**
Caloric share of diet acquired from diverse sources
Conventional markets	−0.38***	−0.41***	−0.34***	–
Harvest	0.28***	0.30***	0.28***	–
Social economy	0.20	0.23**	–	–

Correlations are reported using Pearson’s or Spearman’s Rho (R), according to variable distribution. Farmer category is a dummy variable with agroecological set at 1 and reference at 0. Education completed is treated as a continuous variable with values from 0 (none) to 5 (post-secondary). Correlations with R < 0.20 are considered too small to be meaningful and are thus removed for clarity. *, ** and *** indicate significance at the 10, 5 and 1% levels, respectively.

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