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

Table 3 Path analysis estimates for traditional food (TF) production and consumption patterns

Pathway		Path estimate [SE]	Standardized path estimate [SE]	P-value
Effects on TF consumption frequency
TF consumption diversity		26.28 [12.10]	0.29 [0.13]	0.025
TF production diversity		−1.40 [9.66]	−0.02 [0.13]	0.885
Farm production diversity		1.05 [1.36]	0.09 [0.12]	0.439
Agroecology participation		8.68 [48.69]	0.02 [0.13]	0.859
Non-market food consumption		1.22 [0.74]	0.18 [0.11]	0.091
R-square	0.1995
Effects on TF consumption diversity
TF production diversity		0.27 [0.08]	0.35 [0.10]	0.000
Farm production diversity		0.02 [0.01]	0.15 [0.10]	0.135
Agroecology participation		1.07 [0.41]	0.26 [0.10]	0.008
Non-market food consumption		0.01 [0.01]	0.12 [0.09]	0.171
R-square	0.4779
Effects on TF production diversity
Farm production diversity		0.06 [0.01]	0.41 [0.09]	0.000
Agroecology participation		1.38 [0.53]	0.26 [0.10]	0.008
Non-market food consumption		0.01 [0.01]	0.15 [0.09]	0.082
R-square	0.4349
Effects on farm production diversity
Agroecology participation		17.43 [3.20]	0.50 [0.08]	0.000
R-square	0.2500
Effects on non-market food consumption
Agroecology participation		24.81 [5.39]	0.44 [0.09]	0.000
R-square	0.1925
SRMR	0.0110
RMSEA	0.0000

Path estimates and standardized path estimates are shown with standard error (SE) in brackets. SRMR is the standardized root mean square residual. RMSEA is the root mean squared error of approximation.

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