Adequate nutrition is essential for good health and active life. However, diets in most low middle-income households lack diversity, especially settings where people eat predominantly starchy foods. In this study, we assessed the associations between socio-economic status household dietary diversity families living South-eastern Tanzania. A cross-sectional questionnaire was administered to 925 ...

Abstract Background Climate change has perverse effects on the natural resource base and agricultural productivity, negatively affecting well-being of households communities. There are various attempts by government NGOs to promote climate-smart (CSA) practices help farmers adapt mitigate these negative impacts. This study aimed identify CSA widely adopted in area examined their impacts rural f...

this study focused on the income generating capacity of farm family’s own resources and examined the vulnerability to financial risk among the remote and peri-urban farming systems of imo state. primary data was collected using the farming and rural systems approach to randomly select and interview 120 households. descriptive statistics and mann whitney test were used in assessing between group...

The study was undertaken to assess nutritional status and dietary habits of the rural population in desert area and aimed at doing comparisons with other state’s data so as to assess the percentage of variation among the states. It has been carried out in 28 villages belonging to 6 tehsils of Jodhpur district in 2005-06. Five clusters of four households in which one cluster selected from SC/ST ...

The COVID-19 pandemic raises the likelihood of food insecurity and affects nutritional status children. This study aims to examine relationship between household poverty children's dietary diversity. cross-sectional has done at Lhokseumawe City North Aceh District. A sample 289 children aged 12–59 months participated in this study. Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) was used measure insecu...

Following widespread food riots in 2008, many people argued that high food prices cause political instability and civil unrest in the form of food riots. However, subsequent research has demonstrated that political, cultural, and economic factors confound the impact of price in determining whether a food riot occurs. This paper contributes to this growing body of literature by exploring: (1) th...

Poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are major determinants of chronic malnutrition. The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of a nutrition education (NE) programme aimed at promoting improved IYCF behaviours in combination with an agriculture intervention on children's dietary diversity and nutritional status. From 2012 to 2014, a cluster randomised trial was ...

Dietary supplements sold for weight loss (WL), muscle building (MB), and sexual function (SF) are not medically recommended. They have been shown to be ineffective in many cases and pose serious health risks to consumers due to adulteration with banned substances, prescription pharmaceuticals, and other dangerous chemicals. Yet no prior research has investigated how these products may dispropor...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the sociodemographic determinants of diet quality of the elderly in four EU countries. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. For each country, a regression was performed of a multidimensional index of dietary quality v. sociodemographic variables. SETTING In Finland, Finnish Household Budget Survey (1998 and 2006); in Sweden, SNAC-K (2001-2004); in the UK, Expenditure & Foo...