Household food insecurity along an agro-ecological gradient influences children's nutritional status in South Africa

G Chakona, CM Shackleton - Frontiers in nutrition, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The burden of food insecurity and malnutrition is a severe problem experienced by many
poor households and children under the age of five are at high risk. The objective of the …

Does household food insecurity affect the nutritional status of preschool children aged 6–36 months?

M Saaka, SM Osman - International Journal of Population …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction. This study used three dependent measures of food security to assess the
magnitude of household food insecurity and its consequences on the nutritional status of …

Household food (in) security and nutritional status of urban poor children aged 6 to 23 months in Kenya

M Mutisya, N Kandala, MW Ngware, CW Kabiru - BMC public health, 2015 - Springer
Background Millions of people in low and low middle income countries suffer from extreme
hunger and malnutrition. Research on the effect of food insecurity on child nutrition is …

Food insecurity and not dietary diversity is a predictor of nutrition status in children within semiarid agro‐ecological zones in eastern Kenya

ZN Bukania, M Mwangi, RM Karanja… - Journal of nutrition …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Machakos and Makueni counties in Kenya are associated with historical land degradation,
climate change, and food insecurity. Both counties lie in lower midland (LM) lower humidity …

Household food insecurity is associated with heterogeneous patterns of diet quality across urban and rural regions of Malawi

AD Jones - World Medical & Health Policy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The nutritional consequences of food insecurity in rural as compared to urban regions of low‐
and middle‐income countries (LMICs) have not been well differentiated. We aimed to …

Household food insecurity and dietary diversity as correlates of maternal and child undernutrition in rural Cambodia

CM McDonald, J McLean, H Kroeun… - European Journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Objectives: To assess household food insecurity and dietary diversity as correlates of
maternal and child anthropometric status and anemia in rural Cambodia. Methods: Trained …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of household food insecurity and its association with child malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the literature

W Drammeh, NA Hamid… - Current Research in …, 2019 - foodandnutritionjournal.org
Food insecurity is a global public health challenge. Household food insecurity is the leading
risk factor of malnutrition, claiming approximately 300,000 deaths each year. Whether …

[HTML][HTML] Household food security is inversely associated with undernutrition among adolescents from Kilosa, Tanzania

LS Cordeiro, PE Wilde, H Semu, FJ Levinson - The Journal of nutrition, 2012 - Elsevier
Household food insecurity contributes to poor nutritional health, with negative
consequences on growth and development during childhood. Although early childhood …

Coping through a drought: The association between child nutritional status and household food insecurity in the district of iLembe, South Africa

RE Drysdale, U Bob, M Moshabela - Public Health Nutrition, 2021 - cambridge.org
Objective: To assess and compare the association between household food insecurity and
child nutritional status over two time-points taking into consideration the effects of a severe …

Household food insecurity, dietary diversity, and stunting in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

G Gassara, J Chen - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The significant public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa of household food
insecurity is an underlying cause of malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to …