Lynnda Kiess

TL;DR: The evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that within households, mothers buffered children's caloric intake, resulting in increased maternal wasting, however, reductions in the consumption of high-quality foods further resulted in increased prevalence of anemia for both mothers and children.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that low infant Hb in this population of rural Java, Indonesia is due mainly to iron deficiency, and that children born to anemic mothers are at higher risk of a low Hb.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the percentage of underweight children declined when rice expenditure fell because households were able to spend more on nonrice foods and thereby increase the quantity and quality of their diet.

TL;DR: The garden production and income levels of formerly participating households three years after withdrawal of program support were much higher than those of the control households, illustrating the sustainability of the program and its ability to increase household food security.

TL;DR: The development and expansion of the Bangladesh homestead gardening programme has successfully increased the availability and consumption of vitamin A–rich foods and useful insights about how to develop and scale up other food-based programmes as well as programmes in other development sectors are provided.