PMID- 37238313
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230530
IS  - 2227-9067 (Print)
IS  - 2227-9067 (Electronic)
IS  - 2227-9067 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 5
DP  - 2023 Apr 23
TI  - Does Raising Livestock Improve Household Food Security and Child Dietary 
      Diversity in a Rural Region of Madagascar?
LID - 10.3390/children10050765 [doi]
LID - 765
AB  - Madagascar is one of the poorest countries and has an alarming prevalence of food 
      insecurity and child undernutrition. Most of the Malagasy population live from 
      agricultural activities making livestock a livelihood asset and a source of 
      animal-source foods, especially for smallholder farmers. This study aimed to 
      examine the association between livestock ownership, household food security, and 
      children's dietary diversity in a rural region of Madagascar. Data from a 
      cross-sectional survey of 344 respondents were used to assess the association 
      between household tropical livestock units (TLU) per capita, Household Food 
      Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) scores, and dietary diversity scores (DDSs) among 
      children aged 6-23 months. The estimation results from the ordered probit model 
      showed that household TLU per capita is negatively associated with HFIAS scores 
      and positively associated with DDSs among children. Additionally, households with 
      mothers who received information on childcare and nutrition from health 
      facilities and community nutrition agents were more likely to be food secure and 
      have better dietary diversity. Therefore, promoting livestock ownership and 
      strengthening nutrition-sensitive messages focusing on the benefits of raising 
      livestock to mothers from rural Madagascar will likely be effective in improving 
      household food security and nutrition for children.
FAU - Raholiarimanana, Fanantenana
AU  - Raholiarimanana F
AUID- ORCID: 0009-0003-0634-2781
AD  - Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan.
FAU - Rakotomanana, Hasina
AU  - Rakotomanana H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3372-8770
AD  - Department of Nutritional Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 
      74078, USA.
FAU - Ishida, Akira
AU  - Ishida A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1129-8522
AD  - Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230423
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Children (Basel)
JT  - Children (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101648936
PMC - PMC10217335
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Household Food Insecurity Access Scale
OT  - Madagascar
OT  - children
OT  - complementary feeding
OT  - dietary diversity score
OT  - food security
OT  - livestock
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/05/27 09:42
MHDA- 2023/05/27 09:43
PMCR- 2023/04/23
CRDT- 2023/05/27 01:05
PHST- 2023/02/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/03/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/03/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/05/27 09:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/05/27 09:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/05/27 01:05 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/04/23 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - children10050765 [pii]
AID - children-10-00765 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/children10050765 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Children (Basel). 2023 Apr 23;10(5):765. doi: 10.3390/children10050765.