ArticleGlobal environmental change : human and policy dimensions2020
Climate Variability and Child Nutrition: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Climate variability, pastoral and agro-pastoral livestock systems, and human nutrition in African drylands: a PRISMA-based systematic review of evidence, pathways, and policy implications.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- High ambient temperature effects on the anthropometric status of the population: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2026Pooled it
- The Effect of Rainfall and Temperature Patterns on Childhood Linear Growth in the Tropics: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Climate change impacts on child and adolescent health and well-being: A narrative review.Journal of global health · 2024Pooled it
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- Monsoon Flooding and Undernutrition Among Children in Bangladesh: A Population-Level Analysis of the 2017 Monsoon Flood.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026Article
- Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Child Malnutrition: A Scoping Review.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026Article
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- Ambient temperature, rainfall, and adverse maternal and child health outcomes in Nigeria: evidence from a national cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Assessing heat exposure and its effects on farmer health, harvest yields, and nutrition: a study protocol for Burkina Faso and Kenya.Global health action · 2025Article
- Child Stunting and Temperature Anomalies: A Cross-Sectional Study in Burkina Faso and Kenya.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Eliminating hunger in a world serious about climate mitigation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Temperature and precipitation affect the water fetching time burden in Sub-Saharan Africa.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Malnutrition and Climate in Niger: Findings from Climate Indices and Crop Yield Simulations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Precipitation, temperature, and child undernutrition: evidence from the Mali demographic and health surveys 2012-2013 and 2018.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Climatic change and household-level demographic dynamics: concepts and empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa.Population and environment · 2024Article
- The association between crop diversity and children's dietary diversity: multi-scalar and cross-national comparisons.Food security · 2024Article
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Abstract
Climatic variability affects many underlying determinants of child malnutrition, including food availability, access, and utilization. Evidence of the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation on children's nutritional status nonetheless remains limited. Research addressing this knowledge gap is merited given the short- and long-run consequences of malnutrition. We address this issue by estimating the effects of temperature and precipitation anomalies on the weight and wasting status of children ages 0-59 months across 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Linear regression models show that high temperatures and low precipitation are associated with reductions in child weight, and that high temperatures also lead to increased risk of wasting. We find little evidence of substantively meaningful differences in these effects across sub-populations of interest. Our results underscore the vulnerability of young children to climatic variability and its second-order economic and epidemiological effects. The study also highlights the corresponding need to design and assess interventions to effectively mitigate these impacts.
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