An agriculture-nutrition intervention improved children's diet and growth in a randomized trial in Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Stunting in Ghana is associated with rural communities, poverty, and low education; integrated agricultural interventions can address the problem. This cluster randomized controlled trial tested the effect of a 12-month intervention (inputs and training for poultry farming and home gardening, and nutrition and health education) on child diet and nutritional status. Sixteen clusters were identified and randomly assigned to intervention or control; communities within clusters were randomly chosen, and all interested, eligible mother-child pairs were enrolled (intervention: 8 clusters, 19 communities, and 287 households; control: 8 clusters, 20 communities, and 213 households). Intention-to-treat analyses were used to estimate the effect of the intervention on endline minimum diet diversity (

SUBMITTER: Marquis GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866204 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature