Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent throughout the developing world, and causes night blindness and increases child morbidity and mortality. We studied the health benefits of biofortification in reducing VAD, using a cluster-randomized impact evaluation in 36 villages in northern Mozambique. Bas...
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| author | Jones, Kelly M. de Brauw, Alan |
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| description | Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent throughout the developing world, and causes night blindness and increases child morbidity and mortality. We studied the health benefits of biofortification in reducing VAD, using a cluster-randomized impact evaluation in 36 villages in northern Mozambique. Based on a sample of 1,321 observations of children under the age 5, biofortification reduced diarrhea prevalence by 11.4 percentage points (95% CI 2.0–20.8), and by 18.9 percentage points in children under the age three (95% CI 6.6–68.3). Diarrhea duration was also reduced. This is promising evidence that child health can be improved through agricultural interventions such as biofortification. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1505292025-09-25T13:01:42Z Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea Jones, Kelly M. de Brauw, Alan carotenoids child health diarrhoea micronutrient deficiencies retinol nutrition retinols micronutrients morbidity Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent throughout the developing world, and causes night blindness and increases child morbidity and mortality. We studied the health benefits of biofortification in reducing VAD, using a cluster-randomized impact evaluation in 36 villages in northern Mozambique. Based on a sample of 1,321 observations of children under the age 5, biofortification reduced diarrhea prevalence by 11.4 percentage points (95% CI 2.0–20.8), and by 18.9 percentage points in children under the age three (95% CI 6.6–68.3). Diarrhea duration was also reduced. This is promising evidence that child health can be improved through agricultural interventions such as biofortification. 2015-05-22 2024-08-01T02:52:13Z 2024-08-01T02:52:13Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150529 en Open Access Elsevier Jones, Kelly M.; and de Brauw, Alan. 2015. Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea. World Development 74 (October 2015): 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.04.007 |
| spellingShingle | carotenoids child health diarrhoea micronutrient deficiencies retinol nutrition retinols micronutrients morbidity Jones, Kelly M. de Brauw, Alan Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| title | Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| title_full | Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| title_fullStr | Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| title_short | Using agriculture to improve child health: Promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| title_sort | using agriculture to improve child health promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea |
| topic | carotenoids child health diarrhoea micronutrient deficiencies retinol nutrition retinols micronutrients morbidity |
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