Alcohol misuse as a social determinant of food insecurity among smallholder farmers

Mohammed, Kamaldeen; Batung, Evans; Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri; Luginaah, Isaac

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116489

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“…This allowed us to predict the impact of food demonstration on high dietary diversity. From the social cognitive theory perspective, we also included theoretically relevant variables based on broader food and nutrition security literature [8,9,13,[18][19][20]30,[46][47][48]. These include home gardening (no = 0, 1 = yes), livestock rearing (no = 0, 1 = yes), access to credit (no = 0, 1 = yes), receipt remittances (no = 0, 1 = yes), infants (0 = no under five children, 1 = under five children present), and self-rated nutrition status (based on self-rating of entire household), The choices were "Excellent," "Very good," "Good," "Fair," and "Poor."…”

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“…The environment is semi-arid and prone to multiple and severe climate stressors that have a substantial impact on agricultural productivity [30], poor health [9,31], out-migration [9], and environmental pollution [31]. Food security and hunger are particularly pressing issues in the UWR [8,9,13,[18][19][20]. The UWR is one of the poorest in the country.…”

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“…Nevertheless, studies on FD are relatively scarce in SSA, especially in northern Ghana. Many scholars have reported on food security and dietary diversity experiences [8,9,13,[18][19][20], neglecting how FDs translate into HDD. Despite the intervention of FD, it remains to be seen whether these demonstrations translate into adequate dietary diversity at the household level, considering the socio-economic, socio-cultural, resource-poor, and environmental dynamics in the UWR of Ghana.…”

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Does government food demonstration intervention influence household dietary diversity in the Upper West Region of Ghana?

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Yengnone

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Dietary diversity is crucial in ensuring food and nutrition security. In low-middle-income countries, people frequently prioritize the quantity of food they consume over its quality due to a lack of availability and financial limitations. As a result, achieving dietary diversity is often overlooked in favor of ensuring adequate caloric intake. Through a social cognitive theory perspective, our study examines the relationship between food demonstrations and household dietary diversity in Ghana’s Upper West Region utilizing cross-sectional survey data from 517 smallholder farmer households. The results from ordered logistic regression presented in odds ratio (OR) show that participating in food demonstrations (OR: 2.585, p<0.01), engaging in home gardening (OR: 1.932, p<0.001), having access to credit (OR: 1.609, p<0.01), self-rated good nutritional status (OR: 1.747, p<0.01), and Waala ethnicity (OR: 3.686, p<0.001) were all positively associated with high household dietary diversity. Conversely, living in the Wa West district was associated with lower dietary diversity (OR: 0.326, p<0.001). Our research findings suggest that policymakers may want to consider implementing community-based educational programs, such as home and school visits for food demonstrations and sensitizations, promoting mother-to-mother support groups for dietary diversity education, nutrition counseling services, and using role-play and local media. In addition, strengthening local agricultural policies through food banks, indigenous seed development, and mobile food markets and enhancing public-private partnerships like the Ghana Schools Feeding Programme and National Food Buffer Stock company could improve the supply chain and distribution networks for diverse food items. Implementing these interventions in the Upper West Region of Ghana could improve health, well-being, food security, and nutritional outcomes.

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Proportional Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Due to Liver Diseases among Agricultural Workers, Brazil, 2017 to 2022

Silva,

Arruda,

Nunes

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The objective of the study was to describe the profile and calculate the Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) due to liver diseases in Brazilian agricultural workers, between 2017 and 2022. For this, we analyzed microdata available in the Mortality Information System (Sistema de Informação de Mortalidade - SIM), considering the outcome as the underlying cause of death with codes K70-K77 (ICD-10). Workers’ profile was characterized according to socio-demographic variables and the Brazilian regions, with a comparison group formed by all other Brazilian workers aged 18 to 69 who died in the same period and from the same underlying cause. Calculations of proportional mortality, YPLL rates, and YPLL rate ratios were applied. In the studied period, 15,362 deaths due to liver diseases were recorded among Brazilian agricultural workers, with an average age at death of 51.3 years (±10.7), concentrated in K70 - Alcoholic liver disease (53.8%). Higher proportional mortality was observed in men (86.2%), Brown race (61.1%), up to 49 years old (40.9%), with ≤7 years of education level (52.4%), and residents in Northeast (56.9%). The total sum of YPLL was 382,869 years among agricultural workers, with YPLL rate of 4,527 years per 100,000 workers and YPLL rate ratio 1.45 times higher than the national average. The concentration of deaths due to K70 raises concern for potential chronic exposure to alcoholic beverages. These results highlight the early causes of deaths resulting from liver diseases among agricultural workers, especially those in the Northeast region of Brazil and of Brown race.

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Alcohol misuse as a social determinant of food insecurity among smallholder farmers

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Does government food demonstration intervention influence household dietary diversity in the Upper West Region of Ghana?

Does government food demonstration intervention influence household dietary diversity in the Upper West Region of Ghana?

Proportional Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Due to Liver Diseases among Agricultural Workers, Brazil, 2017 to 2022

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