Impacts of Nutritional Gardens on Health of Communal Households; A Case Study of Nyanga North District

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العنوان: Impacts of Nutritional Gardens on Health of Communal Households; A Case Study of Nyanga North District
المؤلفون: Tapiwa Satambara, Jackqeline Mutambara, James Masvongo
بيانات النشر: Zenodo, 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
مصطلحات موضوعية: Economic growth, Government, Under-five, Significant difference, Malnutrition, technology, industry, and agriculture, food and beverages, Nutritional status, Baseline data, social sciences, Chronically, Malnutrition in children, medicine.disease, Private sector, Weight, Feedback, Geography, Evaluate, Age, Environmental health, medicine, geographic locations, Comparative, Illness
الوصف: The premise of this study was to evaluate the contributions of nutritional gardening on household nutritional status. This was considered important in providing a feedback to promoters and users of nutritional gardens. This study used secondary baseline data and primary data on nutritional status before and after adoption of gardening from a sample of 40 households. A comparative study design using a t-test was then effected to compare the nutritional status before and after practicing garderning. The study revealed that there was a statistically significant difference on the nutritional status of households before and after adoption of nutritional gardens. On average, the weight-for-age for children under five years of age was higher (90%) after nutritional gardens than before 73%, prevalence of illnesses was lower (21%) after nutritional gardens than before (71%), chronically ill adults were higher (30%) before than after (27%) and malnutrition in children was lower (5%) after than before (13%). Promoters and users of nutritional gardening such as government, non governmental organizations, private sector and farmers were encouraged to promote the concept in order to improve households nutritional status.
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::92b33fa34da534c1b8f7bd765a3e20c8
https://zenodo.org/record/3377023
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....92b33fa34da534c1b8f7bd765a3e20c8
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE