@article{50e50069ab2a4d7c8d4dc0d2c0dac629,
title = "Ecological correlates of dietary consumption and nutritional status in highland and coastal ecuador",
abstract = "This paper investigates the patterns of variation in food availability and nutritional status among small-scale farmers from highland and coastal regions of Ecuador. Dietary adequacy is greater among households of the highland sample and appears to be associated with higher consumption of foods from subsistence production. Energy consumption is marginal in the coastal sample where farmers are involved in the production of coffee as a cash crop. Households on the coast rely on inexpensive market foods and obtain less than a quarter of their energy from home-produced items. Early childhood growth is poor in both regions. In the highland sample, older children have relatively better nutritional status, whereas nutritional status declines in the older cohorts of the coastal sample. Children's nutritional status (weight-for-age and weight-for-height) is correlated with household dietary adequacy in the highland sample; in the coastal group, per capita income is the strongest correlate of nutritional status. These results highlight important differences in the correlates of dietary consumption and nutritional status among small-scale producers in two distinct farming systems.",
keywords = "Ecuador, Food consumption, cash cropping, farming systems, nutritional status, production, subsistence",
author = "Leonard, {William R.} and Dewalt, {Kathleen M.} and Uquillas, {Jorge E.} and Dewalt, {Billie R.}",
note = "Funding Information: Data presented in this paper were collected as part of a collaborative agreement between the Fundaci{\'o}n para el Desarrollo Agropecuario (FUNDAGRO) and the Cooperative Agreement of Nutrition and Agriculture (CANA) of the Universities of Kentucky and Arizona. Special thanks go to.James Stans-bury for assistance with data management and to Merrill Stephen for help with manuscript preparation. We also appreciate the insightful comments of two anonymous reviewers. This work was supported by USAID contract DAN-5110-A-00-9095-00, FUNDAGRO, the University of Guelph Research Board and NSERC Canada (grant #OGP0116785). Funding Information: The research is part of an ongoing collaboration between the University of Kentucky, the University of Guelph and the Fundaci{\'o}n para el Desarrollo Agrope-cuario (FUNDAGRO). The data presented here were collected under the Co-operative Agreement on Nutrition and Agriculture (CANA) as part of the Research, Extension and Education (REE) Project supported by FUNDAGRO and USAID. One of the goals of the REE project is to improve the standard of living of small farmers in Ecuador by supporting agricultural research, extension and education aimed at their problems. Toward this end, baseline surveys were implemented during 1988-89 to address questions concerning production, use of technology, food consumption and nutritional status in different agricultural regions of Ecuador. The baselines were conducted in cantones (counties) where there were FUNDAGRO-sponsored programs. This paper presents data collected among rural highland and coastal communities during November and December of 1988.",
year = "1993",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/03670244.1993.9991350",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "31",
pages = "67--85",
journal = "Ecology of Food and Nutrition",
issn = "0367-0244",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1-2",
}
