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Nutrition indicators in agriculture projects: Current measurement, priorities, and gaps
- Source :
- Global Food Security. 10:1-10
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- How agriculture can improve human nutrition is a topic of debate. Recent reviews demonstrate little impact on nutritional status but do not critically examine the choice of appropriate outcome indicators. This paper reviews which nutrition impact indicators are currently used in agriculture-nutrition projects, and highlights priorities and gaps in measurement. Many project evaluations are statistically underpowered to observe impact on nutritional status, but appear to be powered to observe impacts on food consumption and dietary quality, which we conclude are an appropriate level of impact of agriculture-nutrition projects. To improve the evidence base, there is a need to develop indicators of outcomes that are not being fully measured, including dietary quality and food security, women's empowerment, health environments, and food environments.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture
Impact evaluation
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Food consumption
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nutrition outcomes
Indicators
030212 general & internal medicine
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Empowerment
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030109 nutrition & dietetics
Food security
Ecology
Public economics
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Nutritional status
Diet quality
Agriculture
Agriculture-nutrition
Business
Safety Research
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22119124
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Global Food Security
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....84bc6525771a256bc7fabc0e2221b770
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2016.07.004