Home gardening improves dietary diversity, a cluster-randomized controlled trial among Tanzanian women.

ABSTRACT: Homestead food production (HFP) programmes improve the availability of vegetables by providing training in growing nutrient-dense crops. In rural Tanzania, most foods consumed are carbohydrate-rich staples with low micronutrient concentrations. This cluster-randomized controlled trial investigated whether women growing home gardens have higher dietary diversity, household food security or probability of consuming nutrient-rich food groups than women in a control group. We enrolled 1,006 women of reproductive age in 10 villages in Pwani Region in eastern Tanzania, split between intervention (INT) and control (CON) groups. INT received (a) agricultural training and inputs to promote HFP and dietary diversity and (b) nutrition and public health counselling from agricultural extension workers

SUBMITTER: Blakstad MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7988851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature