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Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China
Research has shown mixed findings on the link between production diversity and household dietary diversity. The question is whether this link holds for children. In this study we examine the relationship between household’s agricultural production diversity and child dietary diversity, and between p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287000 |
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author | Liu, Xinghua Liu, Chengfang Chen, Kevin |
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description | Research has shown mixed findings on the link between production diversity and household dietary diversity. The question is whether this link holds for children. In this study we examine the relationship between household’s agricultural production diversity and child dietary diversity, and between production diversity and child nutritional status. Smallholder farm households (n = 1067) and children (n = 1067) aged 3–16 years from two then nationally designated poverty counties in Gansu Province of China were interviewed in 2019. Production diversity was assessed with the production richness score and production diversity score. Production diversity was calculated from agricultural production data covering a period of 12 months. Child dietary diversity was assessed with food variety score (FVS) and dietary diversity score (DDS). DDS was calculated based on 9 food groups using a 30-day recall method. Data were analysed using Poisson and Probit regression models. We find that both agricultural production richness score and revenue generated from selling agricultural products are positively associated with food variety score, with the relationship being stronger for the latter. Moreover, production diversity score is positively associated with children’s dietary diversity score whereas negatively associated with their probability of being stunted, but not with their probabilities of being wasted or zinc deficient. Household social economics status were also positively associated with child dietary diversity. |
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spelling | pubmed-102666752023-06-15 Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China Liu, Xinghua Liu, Chengfang Chen, Kevin PLoS One Research Article Research has shown mixed findings on the link between production diversity and household dietary diversity. The question is whether this link holds for children. In this study we examine the relationship between household’s agricultural production diversity and child dietary diversity, and between production diversity and child nutritional status. Smallholder farm households (n = 1067) and children (n = 1067) aged 3–16 years from two then nationally designated poverty counties in Gansu Province of China were interviewed in 2019. Production diversity was assessed with the production richness score and production diversity score. Production diversity was calculated from agricultural production data covering a period of 12 months. Child dietary diversity was assessed with food variety score (FVS) and dietary diversity score (DDS). DDS was calculated based on 9 food groups using a 30-day recall method. Data were analysed using Poisson and Probit regression models. We find that both agricultural production richness score and revenue generated from selling agricultural products are positively associated with food variety score, with the relationship being stronger for the latter. Moreover, production diversity score is positively associated with children’s dietary diversity score whereas negatively associated with their probability of being stunted, but not with their probabilities of being wasted or zinc deficient. Household social economics status were also positively associated with child dietary diversity. Public Library of Science 2023-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10266675/ /pubmed/37315059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287000 Text en © 2023 Liu et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Liu, Xinghua Liu, Chengfang Chen, Kevin Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China |
title | Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China |
title_full | Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China |
title_fullStr | Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China |
title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China |
title_short | Agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural Gansu Province of China |
title_sort | agricultural production diversity, child dietary diversity and nutritional status in poor, rural gansu province of china |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287000 |
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