Do Home Garden Projects Improve Income and Nutritional Status? A Case Study in Senegal

Marek, Tonia; Brun, Tierry; Reynaud, Jacqueline

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“…More vegetables are consumed during the spring, when rural women collect many types of edible wild vegetables growing in the fields or the surrounding hills and pastures. These findings are in agreement with those of others [11][12][13][14]. Nutritional status of rural women in Iran…”

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Nutritional Status of Rural Women in Relation to their Participation in Mixed Farming in the Tafresh Area of Iran

Fami

Veerabhadraiah

Nath³

2002

Food Nutr Bull

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ISBN 0-8493-8736-1) 422 pages, hardcover. US$69.95/£46.99.Childhood obesity is increasing rapidly, not only in industrialized but also in developing countries in transition. It is cause for alarm that it commonly leads to adult obesity. Adult obesity is already endemic in most industrialized countries and is rapidly increasing in the more advanced developing countries as well. The result is an increase in morbidity and mortality from diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, and other chronic diseases. The implications for developing countries are more serious because of evidence that fetal and infant malnutrition increases susceptibility to these chronic diseases in adults. There is an urgent need for a comprehensive compilation of available information as a basis for combating the epidemic of adult obesity.Both authors are world authorities on exercise physiology and have applied their expertise to such a treatise. The first 11 chapters review in detail the main characteristics of childhood obesity, including epidemiology, stages of development, physical characteristics, energy expenditure and activity, evaluation of functional status, food intake, biochemical and hormonal characteristics, psychological aspects, and health problems.The second section on treatment and management principles begins with a valuable 55-page chapter on the effects of various reduction therapies, followed by 35 pages on practical measures for weight management during the growing years. This book provides a wealth of well-presented and valuable information for all who are interested in this increasingly important subject.Proteins of iron metabolism. Ugo Testa. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., USA, 2002 (ISBN 0-8493-8676-4) 559 pages, hardcover, US$199.95/£134.00.

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Nutritional Status of Rural Women in Relation to their Participation in Mixed Farming in the Tafresh Area of Iran

Fami

Veerabhadraiah

Nath³

2002

Food Nutr Bull

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“…The first one is that of nutrition. Homegardens are regarded as one strategy for addressing malnutrition and causes of micronutrient deficiencies [41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. The second scope is herbalism through the provision of medicinal plants [13,[48][49][50].…”

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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure. Fang Homegarden Organization as Means to Prevent from Health Risks~!2010-01-05~!2010-01-20~!2010-06-22~!

Dounias¹

2010

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The ethnobiological analysis of Fang homegardens in Southern Cameroon reveals striking contrasts between the frontyard and the backyard. Plants and their uses, as well as attitudes of villagers, clearly reflect opposite functions. The frontyard is a public space that is regularly maintained in a clean state. This is a pleasing and freely accessible space, where plants are mainly ornamental or provide only slight shade, as this space must remain well illuminated and offer a bright view. By contrast, the backyard is a dark private space. Access is restricted and protected by magic. In this space, people communicate with the supernatural world, discretely experiment with new magical, medicinal, and food plants. Like the two sides of a coin, the frontyard and the backyard have complementary values that can be understood only in the light of the turbulent history of the Fang. They constitute powerful physical, spatial and cultural poles that fulfill a series of embedded functions that mark out the life history of the Fang, the social relationships within different members of the communities, and the symbolically rich settings for everyday life and rituals. Ultimately, they form an assemblage that efficiently reduces exposure to diseases. The cultural control of risks on health does not only concern the physical and functional layouts of the landscape-that efficiently reduce the incidence of vector-borne and transmissible diseases-but it also concerns the symbolic control of supernatural forces, which are much less immediately tangible causes of sickness, pain, trouble, conflict and even death.

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“…The primary objective of the MARD Project was to augment household income by increasing production of higheconomic-value crops, especially potatoes, tomatoes, onions, and cauliflower. Because these crops are low in micronutrients and because the expected increased income would not necessarily result in an increase in the purchase or consumption of nutritious foods [22], a secondary objective of the MARD Project was to increase the nutritional status of women and children under the age of five years through kitchen-garden and nutrition education and training. The University of California, Davis, particularly the Program in International Nutrition, was responsible for the nutrition component of the MARD Project.…”

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Nutrition Knowledge and Practices, and Consumption of Vitamin A–Rich Plants by Rural Nepali Participants and Nonparticipants in a Kitchen-Garden Program

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Food-based nutrition interventions, including kitchen gardens and nutrition education, offer a potentially sustainable approach to reducing multiple nutritional deficiencies, but they have been poorly evaluated in developing countries. In a poor region of the terai (the flat, subtropical agricultural region that borders on India) in rural Nepal, we developed and evaluated the impact of a nutrition program added to the Market Access for Rural Development (MARD) Project. The primary objective of the MARD Project was to augment household income by increasing the production of high-economic-value crops. The objective of the nutrition program was to increase vitamin A and iron intakes by promoting kitchen gardens (training, technical assistance, and seed distribution) and nutrition education. One-third of the kitchen-garden program participants also attended nutrition education or agricultural training sessions that were part of the MARD Project. The program was evaluated after 36 months by a cross-sectional nutrition survey in 430 MARD households with kitchen gardens and 389 non-MARD control households. The lack of knowledge about nutrition, including the causes, prevention, and treatment of night-blindness and anemia, was remarkable. However, compared with control households, the kitchen-gardens group had significantly more nutrition knowledge (38% vs. 13% knew one of the causes of night-blindness, and 17% vs. 3% knew one of the causes of anemia), were more likely to feed special complementary foods to infants and to preserve food, and consumed more of 16 types of home-produced micronutrient-rich vegetables and fruits. Although the cross-sectional nature of the study limits our ability to attribute these differences to the program, we observed a striking lack of nutrition knowledge in these communities, and a clear opportunity to increase the intake of vitamin A through home production of vitamin A-rich plants.

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Do Home Garden Projects Improve Income and Nutritional Status? A Case Study in Senegal

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Nutritional Status of Rural Women in Relation to their Participation in Mixed Farming in the Tafresh Area of Iran

Nutritional Status of Rural Women in Relation to their Participation in Mixed Farming in the Tafresh Area of Iran

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure. Fang Homegarden Organization as Means to Prevent from Health Risks~!2010-01-05~!2010-01-20~!2010-06-22~!

Nutrition Knowledge and Practices, and Consumption of Vitamin A–Rich Plants by Rural Nepali Participants and Nonparticipants in a Kitchen-Garden Program

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