Measuring child food poverty: understanding the gap to achieving minimum dietary diversity
Overall MDD is low, but there is large potential for improving MDD achievement if food consumption can be increased by one or two food groups. Available, affordable and culturally accepted food groups are identified that could be prioritised in interventions to close this gap.
Authors
- Nele Albers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0502-6176)
- Arnaud Lailou
- Siméon Nanama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-6848)
- Sebastián Vollmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7863-0462)
Institutions
- West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (SN)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Public Health Nutrition
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980025000023
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.36
Funders
- UNICEF
- University of Cambridge