Demonstration gardens improve agricultural production, food security and preschool child diets in subsistence farming communities in Panama.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore impacts of a demonstration garden-based agricultural intervention on agricultural knowledge, practices and production, food security and preschool child diet diversity of subsistence farming households.

Design

Observational study of households new to the intervention or participating for 1 or 5 years. Variables measured were agricultural techniques learned from the intervention and used, agricultural production, household food insecurity (FIS) and child diet diversity (DDS), over one agricultural cycle (during land preparation, growing and harvest months).

Setting

Fifteen rural subsistence farming communities in Panama.

Participants

Households participating in intervention (n 237) with minimum one preschool child.

Results

After 1 ye

SUBMITTER: Krause RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195590 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature