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

NCT ID: NCT02626988

Last Updated: 2021-08-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 180 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-08-05
• Study Completion Date: 2017-12-11

Brief Summary

What is the role of Agricultural biodiversity in improving diet diversity, quality and nutrition?

Detailed Description

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

Food Intake; Biodiversity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention

The intervention group will receive capacity building sessions on the 'Promotion of a biodiverse diet' and will include both Agriculture and Nutrition topics, in addition to access to routine health and nutrition checks, and agriculture extension as offered by commune and provincial staff as normal. 5 Sessions will be held in each village over 12 months.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Promotion of a biodiverse diet

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition education combined with Agriculture Capacity building focused on a key set of nutritious crops. Component (C) 1 - Participatory Identification of Intervention Approach (PIIA); C2 - Local stakeholder consultation; C3 - Sensitisation of community; C4 - Formation of Diversity club. Club will receive capacity building from a Village health worker. The following topics will be covered 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 and 4. Active Cooking demonstrations and Nutrition Education and counselling including Diversified cooking practices

Control

The control group will continue to receive routine health check and nutrition education from health staff at commune health facilities. Access to agriculture extension services as offered by provincial staff will also continue as normal.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Promotion of a biodiverse diet

Nutrition education combined with Agriculture Capacity building focused on a key set of nutritious crops. Component (C) 1 - Participatory Identification of Intervention Approach (PIIA); C2 - Local stakeholder consultation; C3 - Sensitisation of community; C4 - Formation of Diversity club. Club will receive capacity building from a Village health worker. The following topics will be covered 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 and 4. Active Cooking demonstrations and Nutrition Education and counselling including Diversified cooking practices

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Woman of reproductive age (between 15-49 years) who are the mother or primary caregiver of a child between 12 and 23 months of age.
• Both the woman and the child should be permanent residents in the village selected and do not temporarily migrate outside the village cluster during the year.
• Reside in a Thai Village

Exclusion Criteria

• Reside in a village that is the Urban center of commune/province
• Currently engaged in other agriculture or nutrition programme or Intervention apart from what is offered by government extension workers

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 55 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University Ghent

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

HealthBridge

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Center for Agriculture and Ecological Studies

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Bioversity International

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Jessica E Raneri

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Bioversity International

Locations

Jessica E Raneri

Mai Sơn, Sơn La Province, Vietnam

Countries

Vietnam

Other Identifiers

BIOHTDIET2015JR

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id