Understanding the Context for Agriculture for Nutrition Research: Identifying Country Typologies of Child-Stunting Determinants

E. Maruyama, L. Unnevehr, Jiarui Wang
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Abstract

We use data from 52 countries on child stunting, poverty, determinants of food security, environmental health, and quality of maternal and child care to carry out a cluster analysis of country typologies. The purpose is to identify where agriculture-led interventions might address binding constraints to progress in improving nutrition outcomes and to identify how existing research on the links between agriculture and nutrition in particular country contexts may or may not be representative. We find that countries with average to poor nutrition outcomes within this sample set fall into groups where one supporting area tends to lag, such as environmental health or food security. Although integrated programs to address all aspects that support nutrition are needed in most of these 52 countries, we identify a group of 11 countries where interventions to improve diet diversity may be most relevant toward progress in alleviating child malnutrition. Agriculture for Nutrition and Health intervention research is underway in 6 of these 11 countries.
了解农业营养研究的背景:确定儿童发育迟缓决定因素的国家类型
我们使用来自52个国家关于儿童发育迟缓、贫困、粮食安全决定因素、环境卫生和妇幼保健质量的数据,对国家类型进行聚类分析。目的是确定以农业为主导的干预措施在哪些方面可能解决对改善营养结果进展的约束性限制,并确定现有的关于特定国家背景下农业与营养之间联系的研究是否具有代表性。我们发现,在这组样本中,营养结果平均到较差的国家属于一个支持领域往往滞后的群体,例如环境卫生或粮食安全。尽管在这52个国家中,大多数国家都需要解决支持营养的各个方面的综合方案,但我们确定了11个国家,在这些国家中,改善饮食多样性的干预措施可能与缓解儿童营养不良的进展最为相关。在这11个国家中,有6个国家正在进行农业促进营养和健康干预研究。
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