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Farm size, food security, and welfare por Abay, Kibrewossen, Hirvonen, Kalle, Minten, Bart

“…This is an important issue in Ethiopian agriculture given that a growing rural population combined with limited scope for further land expansion and slow movement out of agriculture means that average (mean) farm sizes are decreasing in Ethiopia. Using cross-sectional data for the Ethiopian highlands, the authors find—surprisingly—small differences between owners of small and large farms in key welfare and food security outcomes. …”
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Dietary Intakes, Vitamin A, and Iron Status of Women of Childbearing Age and Children 6-59 Months of Age from Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria por International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional survey in rural to moderately-urbanized areas of Akwa-Ibom, a state identified as having high cassava consumption and high prevalence of vitamin A deficiency among children under the age of 5. …”
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Assessment of health problems of sheep and goats based on ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection at Addis Ababa Abattoir, Ethiopia por Bekele, Tizeta, Szonyi, Barbara, Haile, A.F., Fries, R., Baumann, M.P.O., Grace, Delia

“…A study was conducted in Ethiopia’s largest municipal abattoir with the objective to assess the health problems of sheep and goats presented for slaughter using standard ante-mortem and post-mortem methodology. Methods: A cross-sectional study using systematic random sampling was conducted on 384 sheep and 384 goats from January to July 2014. …”
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Micronutrient-rich food consumption, intra-household food allocation and child stunting in rural Nigeria por Fadare, Olusegun, Mavrotas, George, Akerele, Dare, Oyeyemi, Motunrayo

“…The present study examines: (i) the determinants of households’ micronutrient-rich food consumption; and (ii) the combined effect of vitamin A supplementation and micronutrient-rich food consumption on child stunting in households with different food allocation patterns.Cross-sectional study. Households’ micronutrient-rich food consumption frequency and vitamin A supplementation were used as a proxy measure for child micronutrient intakes. …”
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The effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions: Evidence from rural Ethiopia por Kosec, Katrina, Ghebru, Hosaena, Holtemeyer, Brian, Mueller, Valerie, Schmidt, Emily

“…We explore this question in the context of rural Ethiopia using a 2014 cross-sectional dataset indicating whether or not youth household members from a previous 2010 survey had migrated by 2014, and in which sector they worked in 2014. …”
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Household access to traditional and indigenous foods positively associated with food security and dietary diversity in Botswana por Kasimba, Salome Nduku, Motswagole, Boitumelo Stokie, Covic, Namukolo, Claasen, Nicole

“…To determine access to traditional and indigenous foods (TIF) and the association with household food security, dietary diversity and women’s BMI in low socio-economic households.Sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, including a random household cross-sectional survey on household food insecurity access (HFIA), household dietary diversity (HDD) and women’s BMI, followed by focus group discussions.Two rural and two urban areas of Botswana.Persons responsible for food preparation or an adult in a household (n400); for BMI, non-pregnant women aged 18–49 years (n253).Almost two-thirds of households experienced moderate or severe food insecurity (28·8 and 37·3 %, respectively), but more than half of women were overweight or obese (26·9 and 26·9 %, respectively). …”
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Is women's empowerment a pathway to improving child nutrition outcomes in a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso por Heckert, Jessica, Olney, Deanna K., Ruel, Marie T.

“…Though previous studies have found cross-sectional associations linking women's empowerment and child nutritional status, there is limited empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that empowering women as part of an intervention will, in turn, improve child nutritional outcomes. …”
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Nutrition transition and the structure of global food demand por Gouel, Christophe, Guimbard, Houssein

“…The resulting model is transparent and estimated statistically based on cross-sectional information from FAOSTAT the statistical database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. …”
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The association of a large-scale television campaign with exclusive breastfeeding prevalence in Vietnam por Nguyen, Tuan T., Alayon, Silvia, Jimerson, Ann, Naugle, Danielle, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Hajeebhoy, Nemat, Baker, Jean, Baume, Carol, Frongillo, Edward A.

“…We performed face-to-face interviews with 11 722 mothers of infants younger than 6 months using 5 cross-sectional surveys 6 or more months apart between 2011 and 2014 in Vietnam. …”
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Protective effects of diversified diets for dietary folate adequacy and serum homocysteine in breastfeeding mothers amid historic drought por Fujita, M., Asthana, A., Wamwere-Njoroge, George J.

“…Methods We conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from breastfeeding mothers (n = 228) in northern Kenya, surveyed during the 2006 Horn-of-Africa drought. …”
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One Health landscape in Zimbabwe: Current status, challenges and opportunities for institutionalisation por Matope, Gift, Mugabe, P.H., Kapungu, F., Marimo, S., Nys, Hélène M. de, Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Caron, Alexandre, Richards, Shauna, Chirenda, Joconiah

“…A predetermined analysis and reporting format including sections on research and innovation, governance, education and implementation in Zimbabwe was used. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture and child nutritional status in rural Nepal por Cunningham, Kenda, Ploubidis, George B., Menon, Purnima, Ruel, Marie T., Kadiyala, Suneetha, Uauy, Ricardo, Ferguson, Elaine

“…To examine the association between women’s empowerment in agriculture and nutritional status among children under 2 years of age in rural Nepal.Cross-sectional survey of 4080 households conducted in 2012. …”
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Determinants of the gap between breastfeeding knowledge and practices in Vietnamese mothers por Nguyen, Tuan T., Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Hajeebhoy, Nemat

“…We conducted this analysis to examine determinants of the knowledge‐practice gap in early and exclusive breastfeeding (BF). In a cross‐sectional survey, we interviewed 10,834 mothers with children aged 0−23 months old in 11 of 63 provinces of Viet Nam about BF practices, knowledge, barriers and support. …”
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Education and work incentives for frontline workers and household socioeconomic status influence delivery of health and nutrition interventions in Bihar, India por Avula, Rasmi, Kosec, Katrina, Holtemeyer, Brian, Tyagi, Parul, Hausladen, Stephanie, Menon, Purnima

“…In Bihar, India, coverage of essential nutrition interventions is low, but little is known about the factors associated with service delivery by FLW and utilization of services by HH. Data: A cross‐sectional survey of 790 FLWs and 6002 HH from 400 villages in 1 district in Bihar. …”
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Evaluating the dry matter content of raw yams using hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy and machine learning por Adesokan, M., Otegbayo, B., Alamu, E.O., Olutoyin, M.A., Maziya-Dixon, B.

“…Hyperspectral images were acquired across the yam tuber’s cross-sections, and the resulting spectra from the images were averaged and preprocessed. …”
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Brucella species circulating in smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania por Mengele, Isaac J., Akoko, James M., Shirima, G.M., Bwatota, S.F., Motto, S.K., Hernandez-Castro, L.E., Komwihangilo, D.M., Lyatuu, Eliamoni, Bronsvoort, B.M. de C., Cook, Elizabeth A.J.

“…Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by bacteria of the genus <i>Brucella</i>, which results in economic losses relating to livestock and threatens public health. A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the molecular prevalence of <i>Brucella</i> species in smallholder dairy cattle in six regions of Tanzania from July 2019 to October 2020. …”
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Endogenous technologies and productivity in rice production: Roles of social instability in Myanmar since 2021 por Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Aung, Zin Wai, Masias, Ian, Minten, Bart

“…Our results consistently hold for both panel and cross-sectional production functions across various specifications and particularly in Lower Myanmar. …”
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An econometric investigation of impacts of sustainable land management practices on soil carbon and yield risk: A potential for climate change mitigation por Kato, Edward, Nkonya, Ephraim M., Place, Frank, Mwanjololo, Majaliwa

“…We investigate the impacts of sustainable land management practices on soil carbon stocks and also impacts of soil carbon on the mean and variance of crop production using econometric tools. Using a cross-sectional plot-level dataset collected from three agroecological zones of Uganda with soil carbon measured at a depth of 0 to 15 centimeters, our results have robustly shown that irrigation, fertilizers, improved fallow, crop residues, mulching, and trash lines are positively and significantly associated with higher soil carbon, corroborating results from agronomic experiments. …”
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Bringing rigor to evaluations of large-scale programs to improve infant and young child feeding and nutrition: The evaluation designs for the Alive & Thrive initiative por Menon, Purnima, Rawat, Rahul, Ruel, Marie T.

“…In all three countries, repeated cross-sectional surveys, 4 years apart, are used to measure impact, and appropriate age groups are sampled separately to capture change in the main impact indicators. …”
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Vitamin A intake and infection are associated with plasma retinol among pre-school children in rural Zambia por Hotz, Christine, Chileshe, Justin, Siamusantu, Ward, Palaniappan, Uma, Kafwembe, Emmanuel

“…To determine the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency, infection and adequacy of vitamin A intakes among Zambian children, and the contribution of dietary vitamin A and infection to vitamin A status.A cross-sectional survey of vitamin A intakes by the 24 h recall method, vitamin A status by plasma retinol and the modified relative dose-response test, and infection by acute-phase proteins.Rural communities in Central and Eastern Provinces of Zambia.Children 2–5 years of age.The prevalence of vitamin A deficiency was 56 % by plasma retinol, 48 % with infection-adjusted plasma retinol and 22 % by the modified relative dose-response test. …”
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