Importance of Agriculture Intervention inImproving NutritionalStatus of Women and Children: An Indian Scenario (original) (raw)
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2015
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Diet and Nutritional Status of Women in India
2010
The health of women is linked to their status in the society. The demographic consequence of the women has formed expression in various forms, such as female infanticide, higher death rate, lower sex ratio, low literacy level and lower level of employment of women in the non-agricultural sector as compared to men. Generally, at household level, cultural norms and practices and socio-economic factors determine the extent of nutritional status among women. National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau has been carrying out regular surveys on diet and nutritional status of different population groups since 1972. For the purpose of present investigation, the data collected during 1998-99 and 2005-06 on diet and nutritional status of tribal and rural population respectively in nine States of India was utilized. The intake of all the foods except for other vegetables and roots and tubers was lower than the suggested level among rural as well as tribal women. The study revealed inadequate dietary intake, especially micronutrient deficiency (hidden hunger) during pregnancy and lactation. The prevalence of goiter was relatively higher (4.9%) among tribal women compared to their rural counterparts (0.8%). Tribal women were particularly vulnerable to undernutrition compared to women in rural areas. The prevalence of chronic energy deficiency was higher (56%) among tribal NPNL women compared to rural women (36%).
Nutritional Status and Socio-Economic Profile of Farm Women in Aspirational Districts of Tamil Nadu
Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology
Aim: “Women in agriculture” is a widely discussed arena but nutrition of women in agriculture is yet to be explored thoroughly. The current paper focuses on farm women in aspirational districts. These are the districts identified by NITI Aayog which are the poorly performing in a state in various developmental dimensions. Hence, the current paper aims at understanding the nutritional status and socio- economic profile of farm women in these districts assuming their higher vulnerability to malnutrition. Study Design: Survey design was used for the current study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Tamil Nadu from 2018 -2022 as part of PhD research work, affiliated to National Dairy Research Institute. Methods: Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram are the two districts identified as aspirational districts in Tamil Nadu. From each district, two blocks were randomly selected. Two villages were selected from each block randomly and 10 farm women from households having at l...
Importance of Women’s Status for Child Nutrition in India
Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2020
Developing country malnutrition on its current scale one-third of all children causes untold human suffering. Malnutrition is associated with more than half of all child deaths worldwide (Pelletier et al. 1995). It is the source of a major waste of resources and lost productivity because children who are malnourished are less physically and intellectually productive as adults (Gillespie and Haddad 2001). Malnutrition is thus a primary obstacle to the development process itself. It is a violation of the child’s human rights, yet virtually all of it can be prevented.
Research Square (Research Square), 2023
Background Nutritional security for women working in agriculture is one of the most serious and persisting concerns in developing countries like India. The present study surveyed the dynamics of nutritional status based on dietary intake viz. calorie, carbohydrate, protein, fat, calcium, folic acid, iron, vitamin, carotene, etc. among the farm women in central India of Madhya Pradesh. Methods A total of 225 farm women (age group of 18 to 60 years) who were engaged in agriculture activities were selected for the study. The nutritional survey was done by a personal interview on food intake by a pre-tested interview schedule and daily dietary intake. The survey questionnaire includes information on family, socioeconomic status, income, education, occupation, and food habit of the farm women. In this daily dietary intake, respondents were asked to list all the foods and beverages consumed for a whole day. Results The mean age, height, weight, and BMI of the respondents were 34.93 years, 1519 mm, 49.47 kg, and 21.5, respectively. Based on different grades of nutrition, BMI results indicated that 28% were underweight, 52.4% were normal, 17.8% were overweight and 1.8% were obese. Inequality (estimated by Gini coe cient) analysis showed that there is not much variation among the nutrient intake levels across the physical status of the respondents with the exception of carotene and vitamin C. The classi cation and regression tree analysis indicated that with the exception of fat, the rest of the nutrients didn't turn signi cant in determining the farm women's physical status in terms of weight. The analysis of the waist-hip ratio showed that the risk of metabolic diseases (such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc.) is higher in 31-40 years' age group women. Conclusions Overall food frequency indicated that poor intake of micronutrients in their diet according to their work activity results in poor health status. The study a rmed that the actual intake of nutrients varied signi cantly across the physical status of the farm women, physical activities carried out, and their monthly income level. The study also suggests a slew of policy options to overcome the nutritional gap among farm women.
Hunger and Malnutrition among Women and Children in India
The present paper is an attempt to analyse the extent of hunger and malnutrition among women and children in India because women play important roles as producers of food, managers of natural resources, income earners, and caretakers of household food and nutrition security. An improvements in women's status over the past quarter century have contributed to more than half of the reduction in the rate of child malnutrition. But still problem of food insecurity among women and children is issue of concern. Due to hunger and malnutrition the percentage of underweight children has remained stagnant between 1998 and 2006; and more than half of India's women and three-quarters of its children are anemic, with no decline in these estimates in the past eight years. 45.9 percent of children under five are underweight. There is an urgent need to implement an integrated nutrition and health strategies for solving the problem of food and nutritional security among poor in general and women and children in particular.
Swagata Ghosal, S K Acharya et.al
Aims: In this empirical study an attempt is made to examine the relative importance of some socioeconomic and demographic variables that affect the nutrition of farming community. This empirical study has been carried out for farmers and farm women separately and also for both combined to understand both ecological and gender dimensions. The major objective of the study is to conduct a series of participatory exercises to generate a micro level response data, which are primary in nature under the canopy of the title. Study Design: The locale was selected by purposive sampling technique and the respondents were selected by the simple random sampling method. Original Research Article Ghoshal et al.; CJAST, 39(34): 1-16, 2020; Article no.CJAST.62324 2 Place of Study: Four gram panchayats namely Sihar, Deshra Koalpara, Lowgram and Kotulpur of the Kotulpur block of Bankura district in West Bengal were purposively selected for the study. Methodology: In this study 50 farmers and 50 farm women have been interacted and are selected by the simple random sampling method. A preliminary interview schedule has been administered to understand the knowledge, perception and attitude of the people towards nutritional concept, communication and extension system, malnutrition. The gathered data had been put into multivariate analysis. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences V20.0 (SPSS) of IBM was used for analyzing the correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, step-down regression analysis, path analysis, canonical covariate analysis and artificial neural network analysis.
Acta Scientifci Nutritional Health
Keeping in view the poor diet quality of rural Indian women especially those belonging to low socioeconomic status, in the present study an attempt was made to develop a Ready to Use (RTU) nutrient dense mixture from the indigenous and cost-effective ingredients like cereals, pulses, oilseeds etc. Out of various combinations, the one with a composition of Wheat flour: 50g, Chickpea flour: 25g, Green gram flour: 20g, Flaxseeds: 5g was selected and tested for the preparation of different food products which are consumed by rural Punjabi families commonly with the best organoleptic characteristics. Further, sixty farm women belonging to low socioeconomic status were selected and were divided into two groups-Intervention (I) and Delayed intervention (DI) with 30 subjects in each group. Intervention group was provided with the mixture in their daily diets along with fortnight nutrition education for a period of four months, while no intervention was provided to delayed intervention group. Post-intervention, improved nutrient intake (in terms of increased energy, protein, fat, calcium and iron) was observed which resulted in a significant increase in weights (3.89 kg), body mass index (1.48 kg/m 2) and heamoglobin (0.54 mg/dl) levels of the intervention group subjects. So, it can be concluded that the dietary supplementation along with the nutrition education can be an effective strategy to enhance the nutritional status of the women-a vulnerable section of the society.
Nutrition in India. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) India 2005-06
2009
This report provides clear evidence of the poor state of nutrition among young children women and men in India and the lack of progress over time based on measurements of height and weight anaemia testing testing for the iodization of household cooking salt utilization of nutrition programmes and information on child feeding practices and vitamin A supplementation. Young children in India suffer from some of the highest levels of stunting underweight and wasting observed in any country in the world and 7 out of every 10 young children are anaemic. The percentage of children under age five years who are underweight is almost 20 times as high in India as would be expected in a healthy well-nourished population and is almost twice as high as the average percentage of underweight children in sub-Saharan African countries. Although poverty is an important factor in the poor nutrition situation nutritional deficiencies are widespread even in households that are economically well off. Inad...