Children’s Diets, Nutrition Knowledge, and Access to Markets

Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John; Minten, Bart; Stifel, David

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.031

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“…These findings describe the vulnerability context of poor households with young children living in an access-based food swamp [60,61]. While further research will be needed to identify the long-wave health-outcomes of the nutritional patterns observed here, this investigation identified that the current dietary diversity of children growing up in poor urban households across Southern Africa suggests that they are positioned for sub-optimal physical and cognitive development (in addition to long-term nutrient-related diseases) [62][63][64].…”

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confidence: 82%

Food Swamps and Poor Dietary Diversity: Longwave Development Implications in Southern African Cities

Frayne

McCordic

2018

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While the literature on food deserts focuses on limited availability of food in urban settings, ‘food swamps’ may better characterize the extensive prevalence and accessibility of cheap, highly processed foods. For urban populations, access to nutritionally inadequate poor-quality food has dire developmental consequences. The long-wave impacts of malnutrition at gestational and early childhood stages are negative and can be non-reversible. Moreover, those who survive into adulthood may face a lifetime of sub-optimal physical and mental development that undermines the second and third UN Sustainable Development Goals—to end hunger and to ensure healthy lives. This paper assesses the long-term health vulnerability of children with limited access to adequate and nutritious food in rapidly urbanizing cities. The analysis focuses on the African Urban Food Security Network (AFSUN) data drawn from 6453 household surveys in 11 cities and nine countries in Southern Africa. The results indicate that children in these households are consuming a limited diversity of food, have limited access to resources and have greater odds of experiencing both short-term and long-term food and nutrition insecurity. These findings demonstrate an underlying vulnerability to long-term health impacts stemming from nutritionally inadequate diets, with potentially significant costs to human capital.

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Food Swamps and Poor Dietary Diversity: Longwave Development Implications in Southern African Cities

Frayne

McCordic

2018

Sustainability

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“…We see that the knowledge score increases with the level of education, but very slowly. The low levels of formal education mean that gaining nutrition knowledge outside the classroom -for example from Health Extension Workers or media -becomes important (Thomas, Strauss, and Henriques 1991;Glewwe 1999;Block 2004Block , 2007Hirvonen et al 2017).…”

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Evaluation of the nutrition-sensitive features of the fourth phase of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

Berhane¹,

Golan²,

Hirvonen³

et al. 2020

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“…The most notable modifications were the inclusion of switchback routes over Nepal's steepest terrain and a separate monsoon season model to reflect the serious impact of heavy rains on movement over Nepal's poor roads. The latter echoes Hubert's work in Nepal and the work of many geographers studying Sub-Saharan Africa (Hirvonen et al 2017).…”

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Measuring Inequality of Access: Modeling Physical Remoteness in Nepal

Banick¹,

Kawasoe²

2019

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Children’s Diets, Nutrition Knowledge, and Access to Markets

Cited by 123 publications

References 43 publications

Food Swamps and Poor Dietary Diversity: Longwave Development Implications in Southern African Cities

Food Swamps and Poor Dietary Diversity: Longwave Development Implications in Southern African Cities

Evaluation of the nutrition-sensitive features of the fourth phase of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme

Measuring Inequality of Access: Modeling Physical Remoteness in Nepal

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