eprintid: 21942
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1589
dir: disk0/00/02/19/42
datestamp: 2016-10-18 11:22:59
lastmod: 2024-04-17 20:20:33
status_changed: 2016-10-18 11:22:59
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sorgho, Raissa
creators_name: Franke, Jonas
creators_name: Simboro, Seraphin
creators_name: Phalkey, Revati
creators_name: Sauerborn, Rainer
title: NUTRItion and CLIMate (NUTRICLIM): investigating the relationship between climate variables and childhood malnutrition through agriculture, an exploratory study in Burkina Faso
subjects: ddc-610
divisions: i-912800
abstract: 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.
date: 2016
publisher: Presses de l'EHESP; BioMed Central
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1653685530
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-219429
language: eng
bibsort: SORGHORAISNUTRITIONA2016
full_text_status: public
publication: Public Health Reviews
volume: 37
number: 16
place_of_pub: Rennes
pagerange: 1-5
issn: 2107-6952
citation:   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     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/21942/1/40985_2016_Article_31.pdf