Cash cropping, subsistence agriculture, and nutritional status among mothers and children in lowland Papua New Guinea

Shack, Kathryn W.; Grivetti, Louis E.; Dewey, Kathryn G.

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“…An answer has been provided, at least for people in lowland Papua New Guinea, where a quantitative study has shown no decline in nutritional status (Shack et al, 1990).…”

Section: Functions Of Traditional Homegardensmentioning

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Characteristics and functions of traditional homegardens: a review

Huai

Hamilton

2008

Front. Biol. China

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Traditional agroecosystems play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity and in sustainable development. As a typical type of traditional agroecosystem, traditional homegardens have been receiving increasing attention from scientists, especially ethnobotanists. They are considered as germplasm banks for many crops and other economic plants. They are also a key site for domestication of wild plants. Current ethnobotanical studies on homegardens focus on their structures, floristic composition, and contributions to their owners. Traditional homegardens often show complicated structures, diverse floristic compositions, multiple functions, low input (including labor and money), and ecological and socioeconomic sustainability. The characteristics and functions of traditional homegardens are closely related to many factors, such as their geographic location and the cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic conditions of their owners. Many researches on homegardens are conducted in the tropics. There are few studies on the dynamics of traditional homegardens, especially those located in temperate, arid and semi-arid zones. The dynamics of homegardens and the factors affecting these processes will be a fruitful field for future research.

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“…An answer has been provided, at least for people in lowland Papua New Guinea, where a quantitative study has shown no decline in nutritional status (Shack et al, 1990).…”

Section: Functions Of Traditional Homegardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics and functions of traditional homegardens: a review

Huai

Hamilton

2008

Front. Biol. China

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“…Food deserts are particular contexts characterized by "relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food" [37]. While the term "food desert" has been more commonly associated with urban food environments and disparities in higher-income countries [37,38], agricultural communities from high-as well as low and middle-income countries also face limited availability of, and access to, nutritionally diverse foods [39,40]. Indeed, some research in lower-income countries has documented precisely what our own research here shows: that expansion of cash crops results in the erosion of local food-ways and decreased dietary diversity [40].…”

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Exploring mechanisms of food insecurity in indigenous agricultural communities in Guatemala: a mixed methods study

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“…Where home-food production is maintained (Fleuret and Fleuret, 1983;Baer, 1984), cash crop income is used to purchase nutritious foods (Shack et al, 1990), and equal access to productive resources is achieved (Baer, 1984), the impact of agricultural change on nutrition tends to be positive. Agricultural development is often associated with adverse effects on nutrition when local food supplies decline, food prices rise, and purchased foods of poor nutritional quality substitute for more nutritious home-produced foods (Nietschmann, 1973;Dewey, 1981).…”

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Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

Kaiser

Dewey

1991

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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This paper examines the nutritional impact of 1) household economic strategies (source of income, women's contribution to income, and subsistence production) and 2) resource allocation patterns. In a survey of 178 rural Mexican households, the following were recorded during winter and summer: 1) income by source and earner; 2) gifts and loans; 3) agricultural production and expenses; 4) household food use; 5) non-food purchases; 6) household composition; and 7) anthropometric indices and morbidity of preschoolers. The proportion of income from migrant remittances was negatively related to wtfor-age. Subsistence production was positively associated with arm circumference. The proportion of the food budget allocated to milk was positively related to wt-for-age and ht-for-age, while the proportion for traditional foods was negatively related to triceps skinfold and arm circumference. Neither cash cropping nor women's income was related to nutritional status of preschoolers. These results indicate that household economic strategies, independently of income, influence nutritional status.

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Cash cropping, subsistence agriculture, and nutritional status among mothers and children in lowland Papua New Guinea

Cited by 33 publications

References 10 publications

Characteristics and functions of traditional homegardens: a review

Characteristics and functions of traditional homegardens: a review

Exploring mechanisms of food insecurity in indigenous agricultural communities in Guatemala: a mixed methods study

Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

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