Fresh Fruit and Vegetables: Contributions to Food and Nutrition Security

McMullin, Stepha; Stadlmayr, Barbara; Roothaert, Ralph L.; Jamnadass, Ramni

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-100596-5.21534-5

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“…On the other hand, in rural Myanmar, landholding households are more likely to be food and nutritionally secured because land holding helps households to produce diverse products including fruits and vegetables [18]. The positive effect found in this study is also consistent with that of McMullin et al [19] who reported that consuming fresh fruits and vegetables has a significant contribution to nutrition security. Lifestyle interventions also has a significant effect on improving vegetables intake by pregnant women [37].…”

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“…It was also reported that farm production diversification continues to be strongly associated with increasing household's dietary diversity and is highly associated with nutrition security of households in Ghana [13]. Several studies were conducted in different countries to study the demographic, socio-economic, institutional, and geographical determinants of nutrition security status of households by employing different methods of analysis [12,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27].…”

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“…A study by Pritchard et al [18] in rural Myanmar showed that landholding households are more likely to be food and nutritionally secured because land holding helps households to produce diverse products, which in turn helps to have higher dietary diversity. Consuming fresh fruits and vegetables was reported to have a significant contribution to nutrition security [19].…”

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Determinants of Rural Women’s Nutrition Security Status in Northwest Ethiopia

Teshome¹,

Andaregie²,

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2022

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Background: Nutrition security of women is one of the most vital foundations for overall development and wellbeing of society. Since understanding the factors that influence the nutrition security of women is very important for implementing appropriate interventions, this study was conducted to determine the determinants of the nutrition security status of rural women in Northwest Ethiopia. Methods: Survey data were collected from 197 rural women randomly selected using a two-stage sampling method (Cluster sampling in the first stage and Stratified random sampling in the second stage). Data in the two outcomes (nutritionally secured whose BMI ≥ 18.5, and nutritionally insecure whose BMI < 18.5 kg/m2) were analyzed using Binary Logit regression model to determine the significance of the determinants on women’s nutrition security status. Results: The study showed that 72.6% of the women in the study area were nutritionally insecure. Results of the statistical analysis revealed that family size (negative effect), and women’s daily feed frequency, the consumption of milk, fruits and vegetables, and animal products, and women empowerment (all positive effect) were the significant determinants of the nutrition security status of rural women. The weight, the height, and the BMI of nutritionally insecure women (44 kg, 1.45 m, and 15.8 kg/m2, respectively) were significantly lower than those of nutritionally secured women (50.8 kg, 1.55 m, and 21.1 kg/m2, respectively). Conclusions: This is the first study on the determinants of rural women’s nutrition security status using social and demographic data collected at the grass root level and analyzed using an advanced econometric model. The findings of the study show the need for government and other stakeholders’ interventions to increase access to nutritious food products and to provide trainings on feeding culture and dietary diversity to women. The findings of this study can help the Government of Ethiopia to achieve its National Development Priorities in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of UN, particularly Goals 2, 3 and 5.

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Determinants of Rural Women’s Nutrition Security Status in Northwest Ethiopia

Teshome¹,

Andaregie²,

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2022

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“…Malnutrition, which is a key risk factor determining noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) (Development Initiatives 2018; Forouhi and Unwin 2019), is a global challenge, with one in three people worldwide affected. While the causes are complex, a common denominator is a low-quality diet (Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition 2016; Branca et al 2019), with insufficient consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and whole grains (WHO 2015;McMullin et al 2019). Fruits and vegetables contain high levels of vitamins and minerals (FAO/INFOODS 2017), and their consumption is associated with a reduced risk of a number of diet-related non-communicable diseases including cardiovascular disease, stroke hypertension, and type 2 diabetes (Boeing et al 2012;Cooper et al 2012;Muraki et al 2013;Aune et al 2017).…”

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Developing fruit tree portfolios that link agriculture more effectively with nutrition and health: a new approach for providing year-round micronutrients to smallholder farmers

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A sufficient intake of fruits can alleviate micronutrient deficiencies and reduces the risks of a number of associated diseases. In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, however, the production and consumption of fruits are inadequate on average and in particular so in specific seasons. To better incorporate fruits into local food systems while addressing the challenge of seasonal availability, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) has developed a methodology based on “fruit tree portfolios” that selects socio-ecologically suitable and nutritionally important fruit tree species for farm production, to meet local consumption needs. We here present this approach and illustrate it with data from a case study involving Western and Eastern Kenya. The approach uses mixed methods to capture on-farm fruit tree diversity and seasonality at a household level (n = 600 in our case study), the months of household’s food security and insecurity (n = 600) and food consumption patterns at an individual level, to identify dietary gaps (n = 294 women and child pairs in our example). In our case study, 31 fruit tree species were reported on farms in our Western Kenya sample (9 of which were indigenous) and 51 (27 indigenous) in Eastern Kenya. In addition, the median number of food-insecure months per household was four (ranging from 0 to 9 months) in Eastern Kenya and three (0 to 12 months) in Western Kenya. Finally, using 24-h recalls the proportion of women that had consumed a fruit the day before the interview was around 55% in Western Kenya and 80% in Eastern Kenya, with consumption averaging 93 and 131 g, respectively. Using these parameters for each site and fruit tree phenology and food composition data sets, we derived context-specific recommendations that involve promoting 11 fruit tree species to address micronutrient gaps.

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