Improving household food security in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: a comparative analysis of four interventions
| Autor: | Kimberly Mansen, Laura E. Caulfield, Jean-Pierre Nzanzu, Johnathan Strong, Jillian A. Emerson, Sonya Funna, Laura Brye, Elizabeth Colantouni, Shannon Doocy, Joseph Menakuntuala, Jozimo Santos Rocha, Espoir Musa, Rolf Klemm |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
030109 nutrition & dietetics Food security business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Context (language use) Development Malnutrition in children medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Agriculture Environmental health Scale (social sciences) Women's empowerment medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business Empowerment Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Food Security. 10:649-660 |
| ISSN: | 1876-4525 1876-4517 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12571-018-0808-1 |
| Popis: | Food insecurity contributes to poor nutritional status of many populations, but long-term approaches to improving household food insecurity have not been widely evaluated. This study evaluates the effectiveness of four interventions, Women’s Empowerment Groups (WEG), Prevention of Malnutrition in Children under 2 Approach (PM2A), Farmer Field Schools (FFS), and the Farmer to Farmer approach (F2F), implemented in the context of a five-year Development Food Assistance Program in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A community-matched quasi-experimental design was used. Primary outcome measures included Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) and the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS). Mean HDDS was significantly greater than the control group for three interventions (FFS, WEG, PM2A; s: 0.69–0.88, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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