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creators_name: Anitha, S
creators_name: Muzanila, Y
creators_name: Tsusaka, T W
creators_name: Kachulu, L
creators_name: Kumwenda, N
creators_name: Musoke, M
creators_name: Swai, E
creators_name: Shija, J
creators_name: Siambi, M
creators_name: Monyo, E S
creators_name: Bekunda, M
creators_name: Okori, P
creators_gender: Female
icrisatcreators_name: Anitha, S
icrisatcreators_name: Tsusaka, T W
icrisatcreators_name: Kachulu, L
icrisatcreators_name: Kumwenda, N
icrisatcreators_name: Musoke, M
icrisatcreators_name: Siambi, M
icrisatcreators_name: Monyo, E S
icrisatcreators_name: Okori, P
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Lilongwe)
affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, Sokoine University of Agriculture,(Morogoro)
affiliation: Agricultural Research Institute, Hombolo, Central Zone Crop Research, (Dodoma)
affiliation: District Agriculture and Irrigation department, Kongwa District Council, (Dodoma)
affiliation: Africa RISING East & Southern Africa, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), (Arusha)
country: India
country: Malawi
country: Tanzania
country: Kenya
title: Reducing Child Undernutrition through Dietary Diversification, Reduced Aflatoxin Exposure, and Improved Hygiene Practices: The Immediate Impacts in Central Tanzania
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.17
subjects: s40051
divisions: CRPS5
full_text_status: public
keywords: Undernutrition, Complementary food, Aflatoxin exposure, Difference in difference
note: The authors thank Rosemary Botha for organizing the dataset and producing tables.
abstract: The study aimed to quantify the immediate effects of dietary
diversification, food safety, and hygiene interventions on child undernutrition in four rural villages in Kongwa district of central Tanzania. One hundred mothers with their children of less than 24 months old were recruited for this study. The difference-in-difference (DID) method was used to assess the effects of intensive intervention through a learning-by-doing process on the topic of aflatoxin free diversified food utilization and
improved hygiene practices. Periodic anthropometric measurements were conducted on the 0th, 7th, 14th, and 21st days, and DID estimator showed the significant and positive average marginal effects of the intervention on Z-Scores being 0.459, 0.252, and 0.493 for wasting, stunting, and underweight, respectively. Notably, at the end of the study, the mean aflatoxin M1 level in urine samples decreased by 64% in the intervention group, while it decreased by 11% in the control group. The study provides quantitative evidence on intensive 21-day training for mothers incorporating integrated technologies
yielded positive impacts on their children’s nutritional
outcomes.
date: 2019-11
date_type: published
publication: Ecology of Food and Nutrition (TSI)
publisher: Taylor & Francis
pagerange: 1-20
id_number: doi:10.1080/03670244.2019.1691000
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0367-0244
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2019.1691000
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related_url_type: pub
citation:   Anitha, S and Muzanila, Y and Tsusaka, T W and Kachulu, L and Kumwenda, N and Musoke, M and Swai, E and Shija, J and Siambi, M and Monyo, E S and Bekunda, M and Okori, P  (2019) Reducing Child Undernutrition through Dietary Diversification, Reduced Aflatoxin Exposure, and Improved Hygiene Practices: The Immediate Impacts in Central Tanzania.  Ecology of Food and Nutrition (TSI).  pp. 1-20.  ISSN 0367-0244     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11387/1/03670244.2019.pdf