Näytä suppeat kuvailutiedot

dc.contributor.authorRasolofoson, Ranaivo
dc.contributor.authorHanauer, Merlin
dc.contributor.authorPappinen, Ari
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Brendan
dc.contributor.authorRicketts, Taylor
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-09T21:27:51Z
dc.date.available2019-01-09T21:27:51Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationRasolofoson, R., Hanauer, M., Pappinen, A., Fisher, B. and Ricketts, T. (2018). Forests improve vulnerable children’s diet in rural developing countries. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. doi: 10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107104
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/61743
dc.description.abstractMicronutrient malnutrition affects about a third of the world's population. Children in developing countries are particularly vulnerable. Consequences include impaired cognitive and physical development and increased childhood morbidity and mortality. Recent studies suggest that forests help alleviate micronutrient malnutrition by increasing dietary diversity. However, evidence is mostly based on weakly designed local case studies of limited relevance to global policies. Furthermore, impacts of forests on diet vary among communities, and understanding this variation can help target actions to enhance impact. We compile data on children's diets in over 43,000 households across 27 developing countries to examine the impacts of forests on dietary diversity (measured with the Individual Dietary Score, a standard indicator of micronutritient adequacy). We use empirical designs that are attentive to assumptions necessary for causal interpretations and that adequately account for confounding factors that could mask or mimic the impact. We find that high exposure to forests causes children to have at least 25% greater dietary diversity compared to lack of exposure, a result comparable to the impacts of some nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs. A closer look at a subset of African countries indicates that impacts are generally higher for less developed communities, but highest with certain (not the lowest) access to markets, roads, and education. Our study establishes the causal relationship between forests and diet and thus strengthens the evidence for integrating forest conservation and management into nutrition interventions. Our results also suggest that providing households some access to capital can increase the impact of forest-related interventions on nutrition.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOpen Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä
dc.relation.urihttps://peerageofscience.org/conference/eccb2018/107104/
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.titleForests improve vulnerable children’s diet in rural developing countries
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferenceItem
dc.identifier.doi10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107104
dc.type.coarconference paper not in proceedings
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
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dc.rights.copyright© the Authors, 2018
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dc.relation.conferenceECCB2018: 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. 12th - 15th of June 2018, Jyväskylä, Finland
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dc.rights.urlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


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    5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. 12th - 15th of June 2018, Jyväskylä, Finland

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