Household economic strategies, food resource allocation, and intrahousehold patterns of dietary intake in rural Mexico

Kaiser, Lucía; Dewey, Kathryn G.

doi:10.1080/03670244.1991.9991162

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“…These associations are consistent with the other analyses that we have done demonstrating interrelationships among household economic strategies, resource allocation patterns, and dietary intake (Kaiser and Dewey, 1991a;Kaiser and Dewey, 1991b). That no relationship was found between household economic strategies and some of the other measures of nutritional status is not surprising.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…In this part of Mexico, many women who earn income do so through operating small stores. Previously we have shown that ownership of a store was associated with increased use of processed foods, as compared to other economic strategies (Kaiser and Dewey, 1991b). We have also reported a relationship between the frequency of snackfood consumption and indices of fatness, but not linear growth, in these children (Kaiser and Dewey, 1989).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…The findings discussed in this paper are part of a larger study, carried out in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, to determine whether the ways in which income is generated, as well as income level, influence resource allocation patterns and nutrition (Kaiser and Dewey, 1991a;and Kaiser and Dewey, 1991b).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The terms "resource allocation" and "expenditure patterns" will be used almost interchangeably in this paper, and both include the value of subsistence production. In another paper, the relationships of household economic strategies and resource allocation to dietary intake are described (Kaiser and Dewey, 1991b).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

Kaiser

Dewey

1991

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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This paper examines the nutritional impact of 1) household economic strategies (source of income, women's contribution to income, and subsistence production) and 2) resource allocation patterns. In a survey of 178 rural Mexican households, the following were recorded during winter and summer: 1) income by source and earner; 2) gifts and loans; 3) agricultural production and expenses; 4) household food use; 5) non-food purchases; 6) household composition; and 7) anthropometric indices and morbidity of preschoolers. The proportion of income from migrant remittances was negatively related to wtfor-age. Subsistence production was positively associated with arm circumference. The proportion of the food budget allocated to milk was positively related to wt-for-age and ht-for-age, while the proportion for traditional foods was negatively related to triceps skinfold and arm circumference. Neither cash cropping nor women's income was related to nutritional status of preschoolers. These results indicate that household economic strategies, independently of income, influence nutritional status.

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Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

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1991

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“…Of studies that have considered intra-household differences in food distribution more directly, some indicate better intakes among adults, often men, due to their higher social status, energetic expenditure and/or economic value (Abdullah & Wheeler, 1985; Engle & Nieves, 1993). Other studies have reported the preferential feeding of children (Graham, 1997; Kaiser & Dewey, 1991; Kramer et al, 1997; Leonard, 1991; Oldewage et al, 2005) and thus offer some evidence of buffering. The literature also suggests that individual-level factors, such as child age and gender, determine access to food.…”

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Dietary inequalities of mother–child pairs in the rural Amazon: Evidence of maternal-child buffering?

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Schmeer

Hadley

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Social Science & Medicine

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This paper explores the expected outcome of maternal nutritional “buffering,” namely that children’s diets will be more adequate than mothers’ diets under conditions of food scarcity. Data on Amazonian mothers and their children, household demography and economics and direct, weighed measures of household food availability and dietary intakes of mother-child pairs were collected from 51 households to address the following research questions: (1) is there evidence of food scarcity in this setting?; (2) are there differences in energy and protein adequacy between children and their mothers?; and, (3) which individual and household-level factors are associated with these mother-child differences in energy and protein adequacy? In this context of food scarcity, we found that the majority of children had more adequate energy (p<0.001) and protein (p<0.001) intakes than their mothers. Multivariate OLS regression models showed that of the individual-level factors, child age and height-for-age were negatively associated with maternal-child energy and protein inequalities while maternal reproductive status (lactation) was positively associated with energy inequality. While there were no gender differences in dietary adequacy among children, boys had a larger advantage over their mothers in terms of protein adequacy than girls. Household food availability was related to maternal-child energy and protein inequalities in a curvilinear fashion with the lowest inequalities found in households with extremely low food availability and those with adequate food resources. This is the first study to quantify maternal-child dietary inequalities in a setting of food scarcity and demonstrates the importance of the household context and individual characteristics in understanding the degree to which mothers protect their children from resource scarcity.

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Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families

Starkweather

Keith

Zohora

et al. 2022

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives As climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of flooding in Bangladesh and globally, it becomes increasingly critical to understand the pathways through which flooding influences health outcomes, particularly in lower‐income and subsistence‐based communities. We aim to assess economic pathways that link flooding to nutritional outcomes among Shodagor fishing families in Bangladesh. Methods We examine longitudinal economic data on kilograms of fish caught, the income earned from those fish, and household food expenditures (as a proxy for dietary intake) from before, during, and after severe flooding in August–September of 2017 to enumerate the impacts of flooding on Shodagor economics and nutrition. We also analyze seasonally collected anthropometric data to model the effects of flooding and household food expenditures on child growth rates and changes to adult body size. Results While Shodagor fishing income declined during the 2017 flooding, food expenditures simultaneously spiked with market inflation, and rice became the predominant expenditure only during and immediately following the flood. Our nutritional models show that children and adults lost more body mass in households that spent more money on rice during the flood. Shodagor children lost an average of 0.36 BMI‐for‐age z‐scores and adults lost an average of 0.32 BMI units during the flooded 2017 rainy season, and these metrics continued to decline across subsequent seasons and did not recover by the end of the study period in 2019. Conclusions These results show major flood‐induced economic impacts that contributed to loss of child and adult body mass among Shodagor fishing families in Bangladesh. More frequent and severe flooding will exacerbate these nutritional insults, and more work is needed to effectively stabilize household nutrition throughout natural disasters and economic hardship.

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Household economic strategies, food resource allocation, and intrahousehold patterns of dietary intake in rural Mexico

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

Dietary inequalities of mother–child pairs in the rural Amazon: Evidence of maternal-child buffering?

Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families

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