First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries

Choudhury, Samira; Headey, Derek; Masters, William A.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101762

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“…Availability and physical access emerge as key determinants of fish consumption, though often as an inference based on the location of study sites, rather than direct assessment of households’ engagement in fishing activities or opportunities for market purchases. This corresponds with several studies’ findings that a higher likelihood of children consuming fish is associated with proximity to coastal areas or inland water bodies [ 62 , 63 , 64 ]. Economic access was examined in almost two thirds of included studies.…”

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Fish Acquisition and Consumption in the African Great Lakes Region through a Food Environment Lens: A Scoping Review

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Effective actions for the fishery and aquaculture sectors to contribute toward improving nutrition rely on an understanding of the factors influencing fish intake, particularly amongst vulnerable populations. This scoping review synthesises evidence from 33 studies in the African Great Lakes Region to examine the influence of food environments on fish acquisition and consumption. We identified only two studies that explicitly applied a food environment framework and none that linked policy conditions with the contribution of fish to diets. Economic access to fish was represented in the largest number of included studies (21 studies), followed by preferences, acceptability and desirability of fish (17 studies) and availability and physical access (14 studies). Positive perceptions of taste and low cost, relative to other animal-source foods, were drivers of fish purchases in many settings; however, limited physical and economic access were frequently identified as preventing optimal intake. In lakeside communities, fish were increasingly directed toward external markets which reduced the availability and affordability of fish for local households. Few studies considered intra-household variations in fish access according to age, gender or physiological status, which represents an important knowledge gap. There is also scope for future research on seasonal influences on fish access and the design and rigorous evaluation of programmes and policies that address one or more constraints of availability, cost, convenience and preferences.

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Fish Acquisition and Consumption in the African Great Lakes Region through a Food Environment Lens: A Scoping Review

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“…Agroecological and socio-economic factors played a smaller role. In LMIC, maternal education is a prevailing determinant of children's dietary diversity (Blackstone & Sanghvi, 2018;Choudhury, Headey, & Masters, 2019;Senarath et al, 2012), whereas agroecological factors show context-specific results (Choudhury et al, 2019). Moreover, a study in neighbouring Indonesia found that determinants of young children's DDS and ASF intake included mother's knowledge-combining education level and media access, as well as socio-economic status (Sebayang et al, 2019).…”

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Maternal diets matter for children's dietary quality: Seasonal dietary diversity and animal‐source foods consumption in rural Timor‐Leste

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2020

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Improving the dietary quality of women and children is essential to reduce all forms of malnutrition. In this study, we assessed seasonal child and maternal dietary diversity and consumption of animal‐source foods (ASF), using 1,236 observations from combined data collected among 167 mother–child dyads in rural Timor‐Leste. We used generalized linear and logistic mixed‐effects models to examine the dietary differentials of mothers and children in two agricultural livelihood zones and across the seasons, as well as to identify household and agroecological characteristics associated with children's dietary quality in relation to their mothers'. We found dietary quality to be marginally better in coastal than in mid‐altitude zones. However, women's diets were strikingly poor, and their intake of ASF was lower than among children. Mothers exhibited preferential allocation patterns of specific ASF, dairy products and eggs, to children. The intake of ASF was predicted by seasonality. Flesh foods and red meat were much more likely to be consumed during the dry season, when cultural ceremonies are often performed. We found a positive and strongly significant association between children's dietary indicators—dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity and ASF consumption, and those of their mothers'. Maternal dietary quality and educational attainment, more so than agroecological characteristics, were explanatory factors of children's diet. Our study highlights that addressing the dietary quality of children in Timor‐Leste would benefit from improving women's diets through better access to nutritious foods and to secondary education.

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“…Our study relates to several strands of the broader literature on household resilience and nutritional effects from shocks. Reductions in income or increases in food prices have been found to lead to substitution across food categories (Choudhury et al., 2019; Hoang, 2018; Jensen & Miller, 2008) and a decrease in the quality of diets (Brinkman et al., 2010). With poor households spending a large share of their incomes on basic foods (Ivanic & Martin, 2008), this can lead to increased food insecurity and periods of malnutrition with both short‐term and long‐term health, productivity, employment, and income consequences (Akter & Basher, 2014; Niles & Salerno, 2018; Shah & Steinberg, 2017; Smith & Frankenberger, 2018; Smith & Glauber, 2019).…”

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Short‐term impacts of COVID‐19 on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala: Phone‐based farm household survey evidence

Ceballos

Hernandez

Paz

2021

Agricultural Economics

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This article examines the short‐term effects of the COVID‐19 lockdown on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala. We rely on a comprehensive panel dataset of 1,824 small agricultural households collected over two survey rounds, on November–December 2019 and May–June 2020. We place special emphasis on changes in agricultural and nonagricultural income sources, including remittances, and changes in dietary diversity, including consumption of animal source foods (ASF) and fruits and vegetables (F&V). We find that COVID‐19 affected the incomes, food security, and dietary patterns of households, with a decrease in ASF diversity and an increase in F&V diversity, and an overall net decrease in dietary diversity across all food groups. Dietary diversity among women in reproductive age, however, remained unchanged, and increased among children under 2 years old. Interestingly, households with relatively higher incomes appear to have reduced their dietary diversity to a larger extent than lower income ones, as well as households located in communities with more severe access restrictions. The focus of the study in a region with a high prevalence of poverty and chronic malnutrition provides an important perspective into the consequences of the lockdown in complex rural contexts with vulnerable populations and contributes to inform eventual recovery measures.

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First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

Fish Acquisition and Consumption in the African Great Lakes Region through a Food Environment Lens: A Scoping Review

Fish Acquisition and Consumption in the African Great Lakes Region through a Food Environment Lens: A Scoping Review

Maternal diets matter for children's dietary quality: Seasonal dietary diversity and animal‐source foods consumption in rural Timor‐Leste

Short‐term impacts of COVID‐19 on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala: Phone‐based farm household survey evidence

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First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries

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Fish Acquisition and Consumption in the African Great Lakes Region through a Food Environment Lens: A Scoping Review

Fish Acquisition and Consumption in the African Great Lakes Region through a Food Environment Lens: A Scoping Review

Maternal diets matter for children's dietary quality: Seasonal dietary diversity and animal‐source foods consumption in rural Timor‐Leste

Short‐term impacts of COVID‐19 on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala: Phone‐based farm household survey evidence

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First foods: Diet quality among infants aged 6–23 months in 42 countries