ReviewNutrition reviews2017
Critical review of the emerging research evidence on agricultural biodiversity, diet diversity, and nutritional status in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Impact pathways of a homestead food production programme on women's dietary diversity in Bangladesh.Nature food · 2026Trial
- A Nutrition-Sensitive Agroecology Intervention in Rural Tanzania Increases Children's Dietary Diversity and Household Food Security But Does Not Change Child Anthropometry: Results from a Cluster-Randomized Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
- Interface of Climate and Environmental Change on Food Systems-A Report from the "Agriculture and Diet: Value Added for Nutrition, Translation, and Adaptation in a Global Ecology" (ADVANTAGE) Project Working Group 3.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Does higher food biodiversity in the Dutch diet lead to lower environmental impact?European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Foraging, perennial vegetables, and nutritional resilience in a farmworker community: a mixed-methods analysis comparing nutrition functional diversity and the healthy eating index.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- A Pilot Study of the Nutrient Composition Diversity Index in a Sample of Healthy United States Adults Shows Positive Associations with Adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and Micronutrient Adequacy.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Dried fish provide widespread access to critical nutrients across Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The measurement of dietary species richness reveals that a higher consumption of dietary fibre, fish, fruits and vegetables, is associated with greater food biodiversity in UK diets.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Local and regional food production diversity are positively associated with household dietary diversity in rural Africa.Nature food · 2025Article
- Household dietary diversity and associated factors in rural and peri-urban areas of Mbale District, Eastern Uganda.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The impact of agricultural production diversity on farmer household dietary diversity: a case study of Nanjing City.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Food purchase diversity is associated with market food diversity and diets of children and their mothers but not fathers in rural Tanzania: Results from the EFFECTS baseline survey.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- "Planeterranean" diet: the new proposal for the Mediterranean-based food pyramid for Asia.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Association between dietary retinol intake and rheumatoid arthritis based on NHANES database.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The association between crop diversity and children's dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons.Food security · 2024Article
- Dietary Biodiversity and Diet Quality in Dutch Adults.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Relationship between Village Chicken Availability and Dietary Diversity along a Rural-Urban Gradient.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh.American journal of agricultural economics · 2024Article
- Designing a Contextualized Food-Based Strategy to Improve the Dietary Diversity of Children in Rural Farming Households in Central Uganda.Food and nutrition bulletin · 2024Article
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Abstract
The declining diversity of agricultural production and food supplies worldwide may have important implications for global diets. The primary objective of this review is to assess the nature and magnitude of the associations of agricultural biodiversity with diet quality and anthropometric outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. A comprehensive review of 5 databases using a priori exclusion criteria and application of a systematic, qualitative analysis to the findings of identified studies revealed that agricultural biodiversity has a small but consistent association with more diverse household- and individual-level diets, although the magnitude of this association varies with the extent of existing diversification of farms. Greater on-farm crop species richness is also associated with small, positive increments in young child linear stature. Agricultural diversification may contribute to diversified diets through both subsistence- and income-generating pathways and may be an important strategy for improving diets and nutrition outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Six research priorities for future studies of the influence of agricultural biodiversity on nutrition outcomes are identified based on gaps in the research literature.
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