Seasonality of associations between production of indigenous foods and food security status of mother-child dyads in Kisumu County, Kenya.
In: BMC Nutrition, Jg. 10 (2024-01-10), Heft 1, S. 1-15
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Background: Food insecurity is a major predicament for rural populations, especially mothers and children, whose livelihoods are often dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Indigenous foods have the potential of mitigating food insecurity as they can thrive in poor agro-ecological conditions. However, the associations between indigenous food production and food security status of mothers and children drawn from rural contexts has not been expansively assessed. Food insecurity evident by high food poverty rates remain high in Kisumu County due to over-reliance on food imports from other counties. The objective of the study was to assess seasonality in associations between production of selected indigenous foods (kidney beans, soya beans, millet, cassava, sweet potatoes, groundnuts, green grams, cow peas, amaranth leaves, spider plant leaves, black night shade leaves, mangoes, guavas, lime, and tamarind) and food security status of mothers and children during planting and harvesting seasons. Methods: We used a longitudinal study design adopting both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. A structured questionnaire assessed production of selected indigenous foods in the sampled households, Household Food Insecurity Access Scale for mother's food security status and Prevalence of Underweight for children's food security status. Ordinal logistic regression was used to derive odds ratio (OR), which assessed strength of associations between dependent variables (mother's and children's food security status) and independent variables (production of selected indigenous foods). Significance was determined at α ≤ 0.05. Results: Results demonstrated that during planting season, production of kidney beans decreased the odds of mothers being severely food insecure by 53% (OR = 0.469, 95% CI = 0.228–0.964, p = 0.039). In the same season, sorghum production demonstrated 3.5 times increase in odds of children being severely food insecure (OR = 3.498, 95% CI = 1.454–8.418, p = 0.005). During harvesting season, production of kidney beans was associated with a 62% reduction in the odds of children being severely food insecure (OR = 0.379, 95% CI = 0.190–0.754, p = 0.006). Conclusions: Production of some of the selected indigenous foods demonstrated significant odds of predicting mother's and children's food security status across both study seasons. An intervention-based study approach that would best establish causal associations of indigenous food production and food security status is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Seasonality of associations between production of indigenous foods and food security status of mother-child dyads in Kisumu County, Kenya.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Tonui, Kenneth Kipngeno ; Onyango, Agatha Christine ; Ouma, Collins |
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Zeitschrift: | BMC Nutrition, Jg. 10 (2024-01-10), Heft 1, S. 1-15 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2055-0928 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1186/s40795-024-00820-6 |
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