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Physical activity, time use, and food intakes of rural households in Ghana, India, and Nepal

With more than 820 million undernourished people living in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ending hunger and ensuring access to food by all is a global priority. In the past few decades, the adoption of technological innovations in the agricultural sector and related crop yi...

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Autores principales: Zanello, Giacomo, Srinivasan, C. S., Picchioni, Fiorella, Webb, Patrick, Nkegbe, Paul, Cherukuri, Radhika, Neupane, Shailes
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0414-x
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author Zanello, Giacomo
Srinivasan, C. S.
Picchioni, Fiorella
Webb, Patrick
Nkegbe, Paul
Cherukuri, Radhika
Neupane, Shailes
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Srinivasan, C. S.
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description With more than 820 million undernourished people living in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ending hunger and ensuring access to food by all is a global priority. In the past few decades, the adoption of technological innovations in the agricultural sector and related crop yield improvements have not led to expected improvements in the nutritional status of rural households in many LMICs. The increased energy expenditure associated with the adoption of productivity-enhancing innovations may provide an important explanation of the disconnect between agricultural productivity enhancements and improved nutritional outcomes. We develop a methodology for generating reliable livelihood energy/calorie expenditure profiles for rural agricultural households using research-grade accelerometer devices. We integrate the data on physical activity and energy expenditure in rural households with data on time-use and food intakes to generate a data set that provides a unique window into rural livelihoods. This can be a valuable resource to analyse agriculture-nutrition impact pathways and improve the welfare of rural and agricultural households.
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spelling pubmed-70544092020-03-19 Physical activity, time use, and food intakes of rural households in Ghana, India, and Nepal Zanello, Giacomo Srinivasan, C. S. Picchioni, Fiorella Webb, Patrick Nkegbe, Paul Cherukuri, Radhika Neupane, Shailes Sci Data Data Descriptor With more than 820 million undernourished people living in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), ending hunger and ensuring access to food by all is a global priority. In the past few decades, the adoption of technological innovations in the agricultural sector and related crop yield improvements have not led to expected improvements in the nutritional status of rural households in many LMICs. The increased energy expenditure associated with the adoption of productivity-enhancing innovations may provide an important explanation of the disconnect between agricultural productivity enhancements and improved nutritional outcomes. We develop a methodology for generating reliable livelihood energy/calorie expenditure profiles for rural agricultural households using research-grade accelerometer devices. We integrate the data on physical activity and energy expenditure in rural households with data on time-use and food intakes to generate a data set that provides a unique window into rural livelihoods. This can be a valuable resource to analyse agriculture-nutrition impact pathways and improve the welfare of rural and agricultural households. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7054409/ /pubmed/32127539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0414-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files associated with this article.
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