Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationEmory Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Animal Health and Production Research Institute, Cambodiaen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.initiativeOne Health
cg.coverage.countryCambodia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KH
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierHung Nguyen-Viet: 0000-0003-1549-2733en
cg.creator.identifierSinh Dang-Xuan: 0000-0002-0522-7808en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://github.com/minhcam-duong/data-made-publicen
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292618en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1932-6203en
cg.issue10en
cg.journalPLOS ONEen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriMARKETSen
cg.subject.ilriNUTRITIONen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactPlatformNutrition, Health and Food Security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen
cg.volume18en
dc.contributor.authorDuong, C.en
dc.contributor.authorPatel, S.en
dc.contributor.authorHung Nguyen-Vieten
dc.contributor.authorChea, R.en
dc.contributor.authorSinh Dang-Xuanen
dc.contributor.authorTum, S.en
dc.contributor.authorRamakrishnan, U.en
dc.contributor.authorYoung, M.F.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-20T13:48:51Zen
dc.date.available2023-10-20T13:48:51Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132347
dc.titleAccess to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative dataen
dcterms.abstractAccess to informal fresh food markets plays a vital role in household food security and dietary quality in transitioning rural economies. However, it is not well understood if market access also improves child nutrition and if the improvement applies to all socioeconomic groups. In this secondary research study, we combined a national listing of food markets (n = 503) with a national household survey to examine the associations of market access with diet and height across wealth groups in children aged 6 to 23 months in rural Cambodia. All children under two years of age with dietary data (n = 1537) or anthropometry data (n = 989) were selected from the household survey. Food markets were geocoded using Google Maps or villages’ geographical coordinates publicly available in the Open Development Mekong data platform. Regression calibration was then used to estimate household distance to the nearest market. Descriptive results indicated a highly uneven distribution of food markets with median household distance to the nearest markets ranging between 4 km (IQR: 3–8 km) in the lowland areas and 9 km (IQR: 4–17 km) in the highland areas. Results from the multivariate linear regressions showed that distance to the nearest market was modestly associated with child dietary diversity score (β: -0.17; 95% CI: -0.29, -0.05) but it was not related to child height-for-age z-score, and that household wealth did not modify the associations between distance to markets and child dietary diversity score. These findings suggest that improving access to food markets alone might not lead to meaningful improvement in child diet. Detailed surveys on household food acquisition are needed to clarify the role of food markets relative to other food sources such as subsistence fisheries, subsistence gardening and mobile food traders.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-10-18en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDuong, C., Patel, S., Hung Nguyen-Viet, Chea, R., Sinh Dang-Xuan, Tum, S., Ramakrishnan, U. and Young, M.F. 2023. Access to food markets, household wealth and child nutrition in rural Cambodia: Findings from nationally representative data. PLOS ONE 18(10): e0292618.en
dcterms.extente0292618en
dcterms.issued2023-10-18en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectmarketsen
dcterms.subjectfood accessen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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