The impact of a school food aid program on household food insecurity

Petralias, Athanassios; Papadimitriou, Eleni; Riza, Elena; Zagouras, Alexia B.A.; Linos, Athena

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckv223

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“…The studies in the systematic review were published between 1990 and early 2017. Studies were conducted in Australia (n 10) (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39) , Canada (n 1) (40) , China (n 1) (41) , France (n 1) (42) , Greece (n 2) (43,44) , Iran (n 1) (45) , South Africa (n 1) (46) , South India (n 1) (47) , Kenya (n 1) (48) , Norway (n 2) (49,50) , Portugal (n 1) (51) , Denmark (n 1) (52) , Northern Ireland (n 1) (53) , the USA (n 17) (54)(55)(56)(57)(58)(59)(60)(61)(62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69)(70) , the UK (n 1) (71) and Sweden (n 2) (72,73) .…”

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Food literacy programmes in secondary schools: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Bailey

Drummond

Ward

2019

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective:The current review aimed to synthesise the literature on food literacy interventions among adolescents in secondary schools, the attitudes and perceptions of food literacy interventions in secondary schools, and their effects on dietary outcomes.Design:The systematic review searched five electronic databases from the earliest record to present.Setting:The studies selected for the review were from sixteen countries: Australia (n 10), Canada (n 1), China (n 1), France (n 1), Greece (n 2), Iran (n 1), South Africa (n 1), South India (n 1), Kenya (n 1), Norway (n 2), Portugal (n 1), Denmark (n 1), Northern Ireland (n 1), USA (n 17), UK (n 1) and Sweden (n 2).Participants:Adolescents aged 10–19 years.Results:Forty-four studies were eligible for inclusion. Adolescents with greater nutritional knowledge and food skills showed healthier dietary practices. Studies found a mixed association between food literacy and long-term healthy dietary behaviour. Two studies showed an improvement in adolescents’ cooking skills and food safety knowledge; six studies showed an improvement in overall food safety knowledge; six studies showed an improvement in overall food and nutritional knowledge; and two studies showed an improvement in short-term healthy dietary behaviour.Conclusions:Food literacy interventions conducted in a secondary-school setting have demonstrated a positive impact on healthy food and nutritional knowledge. However, there appears to be limited evidence supporting food literacy interventions and long-term dietary behaviours in adolescents. More evidence-based research is required to adequately measure all domains of food literacy and more age-specific food literacy interventions.

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Food literacy programmes in secondary schools: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Bailey

Drummond

Ward

2019

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“…They showed that for each additional month of participation in the program, the odds of a reduction in food insecurity score increased by 6.3%. [ 10 ]…”

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Impact of the national food supplementary program for children on household food security and maternal weight status in Iran

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Background:Food aid programs are strategies that aim to improve nutritional status and to tackle food insecurity. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a National Food Supplementary Program for Children on households’ food security.Methods:The study sample included 359 mothers of children aged 6–72 months under the coverage of the program in two provinces of Iran. Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the households and percentage of supplementary food items consumed by target child were assessed by a questionnaire and checklist. Data on household food security were collected by locally adapted Household Food Insecurity Access Scale at the baseline of the study and 6 months thereafter.Results:At the baseline, only 4.7% of families were food secure, while 43.5% were severely food insecure, and these proportions were changed to 7.9% and 38%, respectively (P < 0.001), at the end of the study. Odds of having worse food insecurity in households with medium and high wealth index was 65% and 87% lower than those with low wealth index, respectively (odds ratio [OR] = 0.35, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.2–0.61, and OR = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.12–0.43). Food sharing was common among more than 95% of the studied households. Mean maternal body mass index (BMI) increased significantly after 6 months (P < 0.001). However, there was no significant association between mother's BMI and household food security in the baseline and at the end of the study (P > 0.05).Conclusions:Findings show that the food supplementary program for children can also improve the household food security status. Further research is needed to assess other factors that affect the effectiveness of this kind of programs.

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“…Nevertheless, different scholars have managed to associate food security which involves food availability, food access, food utilization and stability at household level with various factors including; age and gender, household assets, poor storage, market access and distance to main road, marital status and education of head of household, farm size, offfarm activities, and weather variability and climate change [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Predictors of Household Food Sufficiency in Singida Municipality, Tanzania

Mwang’onda¹

2019

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Incidences of food shortage and poverty are highly reported on Africa specifically sub-Saharan part, despite having a large number of the population engaging in agriculture residing in the rural area. Different scholars have managed to associate food security which involves food availability, food access, food utilization and stability at the household level with various factors. The study takes a similar root in pinning down factors related to the food shortage in Singida. Taking into account socio-economic characteristics of household in analysis, it is indicated that food shortage in Singida area is more pronounced during farming season, that is November to March and it is associated with gender, marital status, education level, occupation and place of residence of the household head. Meanwhile, age of head of household, total manpower in the household, amount of maize harvested, the use of fertilizer, farm size and household expenditure on food had no significant effect in determining food shortage at the household level. Since education has shown a significant positive effect of not having food shortage, and community in Singida depends much on rain-fed agriculture system, the problem of food shortage may be tackled through extension services toward creating awareness on improved agriculture practice for more farm yield given the small piece of land available, and improvement in storage mechanism.

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The impact of a school food aid program on household food insecurity

Cited by 31 publications

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Food literacy programmes in secondary schools: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Food literacy programmes in secondary schools: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence

Impact of the national food supplementary program for children on household food security and maternal weight status in Iran

Predictors of Household Food Sufficiency in Singida Municipality, Tanzania

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