The impact of a Solar Market Garden programme on dietary diversity, women's nutritional status and micronutrient levels in Kalalé district of northern Benin

Autor: Halimatou Alaofè, Rosamond L. Naylor, Douglas Taren, Jennifer Burney
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Vitamin A status
Agricultural Irrigation
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Medical and Health Sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vegetables
Benin
Women's underweight
Women's dietary diversity
Micronutrients
Vitamin A
Nutrition and Dietetics
Anemia
Iron-Deficiency
Vitamin A Deficiency
Dietary intake
Nutritional status
Anemia
Gardening
Middle Aged
Micronutrient
Solar-powered irrigation
Female
Underweight
medicine.symptom
Research Paper
Vitamin
Adult
Adolescent
Women’s underweight
Iron
Dietary diversity
Food consumption
Mothers
Nutritional Status
Anaemia
Young Adult
Thinness
medicine
Solar Energy
Humans
Women’s dietary diversity
Market garden
Nutrition & Dietetics
business.industry
Iron status
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
Iron-Deficiency
Diet
chemistry
Africa
business
Demography
Zdroj: Public Health Nutr
Public health nutrition, vol 22, iss 14
ISSN: 1475-2727
1368-9800
Popis: Objective:To examine the impacts of a Solar Market Garden 1-year solar-powered drip irrigation (SMG) programme in Kalalé district of northern Benin on mothers’ nutritional status and micronutrient levels.Design:Using a quasi-experimental design, sixteen villages were assigned to four groups: (i) SMG women’s groups (WG); (ii) comparison WG; (iii) SMG non-WG (NWG); and (iv) comparison NWG. Difference-in-differences (DID) estimates were used to assess impacts on mothers’ food consumption, diversity, BMI, prevalence of underweight (BMI < 18·5 kg/m2) and anaemia, and deficiencies of iron (ID) and vitamin A (VAD).Setting:Kalalé district, northern Benin.Participants:Non-pregnant mothers aged 15–49 years (n 1737).Results:The SMG programme significantly increased mothers’ intake of vegetables (DID = 25·31 percentage points (pp); P < 0·01), dietary diversity (DID = 0·74; P < 0·01) and marginally increased their intake of flesh foods (DID = 10·14 pp; P < 0·1). Mean BMI was significantly increased among SMG WG compared with the other three groups (DID = 0·44 kg/m2; P < 0·05). The SMG programme also significantly decreased the prevalence of anaemia (DID = 12·86 pp; P < 0·01) but no impacts were found for the prevalence of underweight, ID and VAD.Conclusions:Improving mothers’ dietary intake and anaemia prevalence supports the need to integrate gender-based agriculture to improve nutritional status. However, it may take more than a year, and additional nutrition and health programmes, to impact the prevalence of maternal underweight, ID and VAD.
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