Food Insecurity and Not Dietary Diversity Is a Predictor of Nutrition Status in Children within Semiarid Agro-Ecological Zones in Eastern Kenya

摘要

Demonstration of the potential of food-based approaches that draw on local agriculture resources to improve food and nutrition security of small-holder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa is challenged by the lack of valid assessment tools able to recognize meaningful nutritional changes within short time frames [1-3]. Nutrition-sensitive and sustainable agriculture has found growing conceptual support , 5]; however, agricultural interventions within complex and dynamic ecological and socioeconomic environments typically fail to demonstrate significant improvement in direct measures of nutrient status .