Neighbour home gardening predicts dietary diversity among rural Tanzanian women

Blakstad, Mia M.; Bellows, Alexandra L.; Mosha, Dominic; Canavan, Chelsey R.; Mlalama, Killian; Kinabo, Joyce; Kruk, Margaret E; Masanja, Honorati; Fawzi, Wafaie W.

doi:10.1017/s1368980018003798

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“…The consumption of a monotonous diet may deprive the adequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals, which can affect the nutritional status of children [49]. This finding concurs with the study conducted in Tanzania by Blakstad et al [129], who found that children and women who consumed a monotonous diet were malnourished compared to those who consumed a diverse food diet. Similarly, Shakya [130] showed that children who mainly consumed monotonous food, comprised primarily of carbohydrates, were nutritionally deprived.…”

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A Review of Selected Studies on the Factors Associated with the Nutrition Status of Children Under the Age of Five Years in South Africa

Mkhize

Sibanda

2020

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Malnutrition is a considerable contributor to child mortality and morbidity. Child malnutrition further affects the country’s economic development. Child malnutrition in South Africa is persistent, continuing to be an alarming burden. The nutritional status of kids under the age of five years is a critical indicator of the country’s economic condition and health status. An understanding of the influencers of the nutritional status of children can act as a catalyst in combatting all forms of malnutrition. The purpose of this paper was to review selected studies concerning the factors that affect the nutritional status of children in South Africa. Studies were selected from electronic databases, which were PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Sabinet African Journals, and the University of Zululand library catalog. The keywords that were used to search studies and articles from the selected database were: risk factors, child nutritional status, children under the age of five years, South Africa, malnutrition, underweight, stunted, wasting, and over-nutrition. Studies and surveys published from 2010–2019 that reported on the factors influencing the nutritional status of children under the age of five years were included in this review. Twenty-seven articles met the inclusion criteria of the study. The 27 articles were made up of 21 cross-sectional articles and six longitudinal articles. The finding from this review highlights that there is a lack of studies conducted in urban areas. The results show that the nutritional status of children is affected by several factors. These include household food insecurity, low household income, illiterate caregivers, unemployment, inadequate dietary intake, low birth weight, consumption of monotonous diets, poor caregiver’s nutritional knowledge, poor access to water and sanitation, poor weaning practices, age of the caregiver, and demographic characteristics of a child (age and gender). It is critical to have an understanding of the factors that affect the nutritional status of children. Such knowledge can significantly contribute to formulating policies that can enhance nutrition security and the country’s economy. Moreover, insights into strategic interventions to eradicate all forms of malnutrition can be made.

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Section: Consumption Of a Monotonous Dietsupporting

confidence: 89%

A Review of Selected Studies on the Factors Associated with the Nutrition Status of Children Under the Age of Five Years in South Africa

Mkhize

Sibanda

2020

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“…Monotonous food consumption can reduce the adequacy of essential vitamins and minerals, which can affect children's nutritional status (Zhou et al, 2020). This finding is in line with a study conducted in Tanzania by Blakstad et al (Blakstad et al, 2019), who found that children and women who eat monotonous meals experience malnutrition compared to those who eat variable foods Shakya (Pritika, 2017) also shows that most children who eat meals monotonously , especially those containing carbohydrates, suffer from malnutrition. Therefore, malnutrition caused by monotonous food consumption can lead to malnutrition in children.…”

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Characteristics of Eating Pattern and Food Variety in Toddler With Nutrition Problems

Yolanda

Karjono²,

Supinganto

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Background: Developmental disorders such as malnutrition in a child's early years can have a detrimental impact on all developmental domains, as these years contain the most rapid changes in brain development. Behavior in implementing balanced nutrition by restraining consumption of vegetables, fish and fruit by maximizing local food, or local food with regional specialties according to local conditions. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of eating pattern and food variety in toddler with nutritional problems. Methods: This study used descriptive analysis design with cross-sectional approach. This study was conducted on 1-31 August 2022 with 54 participants of mothers and children (12-48 months). The instruments in this study used 24-hour food recall instrument. The analysis of this study used descriptive analysis. Result: The characteristic of complementary feeding of children with nutrition problems was good eating patterns and 4 varieties of food every time they eat. Conclusion: Food variety in children with nutritional problems was good eating patterns with an average consumption of 4 types of food at each meal.

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“…Additionally, our previous research found positive associations between the gardening activities of one household and the dietary diversity of neighbouring households, suggesting that there may be positive externalities of the intervention to the larger community, and not just the beneficiary households. Specifically, women who lived near a neighbour who grew crops in a home garden had 0.53 higher dietary diversity score (consumed 0.53 more food groups per day, on average) and had 2.77 times the odds of achieving minimum dietary diversity compared with those who did not (Blakstad et al, 2019). The magnitude of impact on neighbours' dietary diversity is of similar magnitude as the effect size of INT on study participants' dietary diversity (0.50 food groups).…”

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Home gardening improves dietary diversity, a cluster‐randomized controlled trial among Tanzanian women

Blakstad

Mosha

Bellows

et al. 2020

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Homestead food production (HFP) programmes improve the availability of vegetables by providing training in growing nutrient-dense crops. In rural Tanzania, most foods consumed are carbohydrate-rich staples with low micronutrient concentrations. This cluster-randomized controlled trial investigated whether women growing home gardens have higher dietary diversity, household food security or probability of consuming nutrient-rich food groups than women in a control group. We enrolled 1,006 women of reproductive age in 10 villages in Pwani Region in eastern Tanzania, split between intervention (INT) and control (CON) groups. INT received (a) agricultural training and inputs to promote HFP and dietary diversity and (b) nutrition and public health counselling from agricultural extension workers and community health workers. CON received standard services provided by agriculture and health workers. Results were analysed using linear regression models with propensity weighting adjusting for individual-level confounders and differential loss to follow up. Women in INT consumed 0.50 (95% CI [0.20, 0.80], p = 0.001) more food groups per day than women in CON. Women in INT were also 14 percentage points (95% CI [6, 22], p = 0.001) more likely to consume at least five food groups per day, and INT households were 6 percentage points (95% CI [−13, 0], p = 0.059) less likely to experience moderate-to-severe food insecurity compared with CON. This home gardening intervention had positive effects on diet quality and food security after 1 year. Future

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Neighbour home gardening predicts dietary diversity among rural Tanzanian women

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

A Review of Selected Studies on the Factors Associated with the Nutrition Status of Children Under the Age of Five Years in South Africa

A Review of Selected Studies on the Factors Associated with the Nutrition Status of Children Under the Age of Five Years in South Africa

Characteristics of Eating Pattern and Food Variety in Toddler With Nutrition Problems

Home gardening improves dietary diversity, a cluster‐randomized controlled trial among Tanzanian women

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