eprintid: 23127
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1589
dir: disk0/00/02/31/27
datestamp: 2017-07-06 11:26:40
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type: article
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creators_name: Belesova, Kristine
creators_name: Gasparrini, Antonio
creators_name: Sié, Ali
creators_name: Sauerborn, Rainer
creators_name: Wilkinson, Paul
title: Household cereal crop harvest and children’s nutritional status in rural Burkina Faso
subjects: ddc-610
divisions: i-912800
abstract: Background: Reduction of child undernutrition is one of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Achievement of this goal may be made more difficult in some settings by climate change through adverse impact on agricultural productivity. However, there is only limited quantitative evidence on the link between household crop harvests and child nutrition. We examined this link in a largely subsistence farming population in rural Burkina Faso.   Methods: Data on the middle-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of 975 children ≤5 years of age, household crop yields, and other parameters were obtained from the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System. Multilevel modelling was used to assess the relationship between MUAC and the household crop harvest in the year 2009 estimated in terms of kilocalories per adult equivalent per day (kcal/ae/d).   Results: Fourteen percent of children had a MUAC <125 mm (a value indicative of acute undernutrition). The relationship between MUAC and annual household food energy production adjusted for age, sex, month of MUAC measurement, household wealth, whether a household member had a non-agricultural occupation, garden produce, village infrastructure and market presence, suggested a decline in MUAC below around 3000 kcal/ae/d. The mean MUAC was 2.49 (95% CI 0.45, 4.52) mm less at 1000 than at 3000 kcal/ae/d.   Conclusions: Low per capita household crop production is associated with poorer nutritional status of children in a rural farming population in Burkina Faso. This and similar populations may thus be vulnerable to the adverse effects of weather on agricultural harvest, especially in the context of climate change.
date: 2017
publisher: BioMed Central
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1659387736
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-231270
language: eng
bibsort: BELESOVAKRHOUSEHOLDC2017
full_text_status: public
publication: Environmental Health
volume: 16
number: 65
place_of_pub: London
pagerange: 1-11
issn: 1476-069X
citation:   Belesova, Kristine ; Gasparrini, Antonio ; Sié, Ali ; Sauerborn, Rainer ; Wilkinson, Paul  (2017) Household cereal crop harvest and children’s nutritional status in rural Burkina Faso.  Environmental Health, 16 (65).  pp. 1-11.  ISSN 1476-069X     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23127/1/12940_2017_Article_258.pdf