title: NUTRItion and CLIMate (NUTRICLIM): investigating the relationship between climate variables and childhood malnutrition through agriculture, an exploratory study in Burkina Faso
creator: Sorgho, Raissa
creator: Franke, Jonas
creator: Simboro, Seraphin
creator: Phalkey, Revati
creator: Sauerborn, Rainer
subject: ddc-610
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine
description: Malnutrition remains a leading cause of death in children in low- and middle-income countries; this will be aggravated by climate change. Annually, 6.9 million deaths of children under 5 were attributable directly or indirectly to malnutrition. Although these figures have recently decreased, evidence shows that a world with a medium climate (local warming up to 3–4°C) will create an additional 25.2 million malnourished children. This proof of concept study explores the relationships between childhood malnutrition (more specifically stunting), regional agricultural yields, and climate variables through the use of remote sensing (RS) satellite imaging along with algorithms to predict the effect of climate variability on agricultural yields and on malnutrition of children under 5. The success of this proof of purpose study, NUTRItion and CLIMate (NUTRICLIM), should encourage researchers to apply both concept and tools to study of the link between weather variability, crop yield, and malnutrition on a larger scale. It would also allow for linking such micro-level data to climate models and address the challenge of projecting the additional impact of childhood malnutrition from climate change to various policy relevant time horizons.
publisher: Presses de l'EHESP; BioMed Central
date: 2016
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/21942/1/40985_2016_Article_31.pdf
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identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-219429
identifier:   Sorgho, Raissa ; Franke, Jonas ; Simboro, Seraphin ; Phalkey, Revati ; Sauerborn, Rainer  (2016) NUTRItion and CLIMate (NUTRICLIM): investigating the relationship between climate variables and childhood malnutrition through agriculture, an exploratory study in Burkina Faso.  Public Health Reviews, 37 (16).  pp. 1-5.  ISSN 2107-6952     
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rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng