Are Land Availability and Cropping Pattern Critical Factors in Determining Nutritional Status?

Melville, Bendley

doi:10.1177/156482658801000218

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“…We also studied the effects of other variables that may affect child growth in developing countries, such as birth order [16,17], interpregnancy interval, duration of breast-feeding [18], source of drinking water and type of sewage disposal [19], crowding [17], education of the parents [17,19], household cohesion [20], and household income [19,21]. No consistent relation has been found between children's nutrition status and the amount of land held by peasant households in developing countries [22], but in Peru the nutrition status of children in Andean peasant households holding less than three hectares of land has been found to be lower [23]. The amount of land held by the parents was included as an independent variable in the present study.…”

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The Impact of Siblings’ Death on the Nutrition Status of Children in Peru

Meer¹,

Bergman²,

Kusner³

et al. 1992

Food Nutr Bull

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The impact of child deaths on the nutrition status of surviving children in the Lake Titicaca basin in the Andes of southern Peru (altitude>3,800 m) is explored. Survey data on obstetric history and social variables were collected in a random sample of 86 households in two Aymara and three Quechua Amerindian peasant communities. Independently of social factors, deaths among older siblings under five years old were associated with improved nutrition stature in children under four. Improved head circumference for age in boys was associated with the death of an older sister. The findings point to a new hypothesis concerning nutrition status in this population: mortality in children under five can be related to improved nutrition status (as evidenced by head circumference and height) in surviving siblings under four.

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