NCT05144919

Biodiversity in the Diet in Vietnam

The Role of Agricultural Biodiversity in Thet Diet: a Vietnamese Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 23 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Agricultural biodiversity can have an important role in improving diet diversity, quality and nutrition and can be seen as the foundation of the food and nutrition value chain. Increasing the availability and access to local agricultural and/or wild biodiversity genetic resources has the potential to increase production, making more food available for consumption as long as entitlements to access it exist. However, as the history of food security interventions has shown, increasing the production and supply of staple crops alone is not enough to improve food security or nutritional status. However, while agricultural diversification is an important component, it is not alone sufficient to improve diet diversity. Other system elements including women's education and knowledge, intra-household dynamics and women's status and cultural beliefs and practices that improves children's health and nutrition are important to ensure biodiversity has a successful role in improving dietary diversity and quality.

Conditions

• Biodiversity
• Food Intake
• Nutritional Status

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Promotion of a biodiverse diet	Component 1 - Participatory Identification of Intervention Approach (PIIA) Component 2. Local stakeholder consultation Component 3. Sensitisation of community Diversity club will receive capacity building from a Village health worker based on the prioritised species selected in component 2. The following topics will be covered for each species selected for promotion: 1. Where to locally source inputs and expected price 2. How/when to prepare plots using organic inputs 3. Planting and best-practice management practices 4. Seed saving and storage 5. Possible intercropping combinations OR ecosystem services provided Component 4. Active Cooking demonstrations and Nutrition Education and counselling: Diversified cooking practices

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2021-12-03
• Last updated: 2021-12-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Vietnam