2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Growth monitoring program for children: Trial for reducing poverty in rural Cambodia
| Project/Area Number |
23653156
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Social welfare and social work studies
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| Research Institution | Dokkyo Medical University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
YONEKURA Yukiko 昭和女子大学, 人間文化学部・国際学科, 准教授 (60566389)
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| Research Collaborator |
KOMA Yang Saing CEDAC, Centre d'Etude et de Developpment Agricole Cambodgien, 代表
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 貧困 / 子どもの低栄養 |
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| Research Abstract |
Village volunteers and parents who participated in the growth monitoring program found that most of their children develop chronically malnourished. They understood that their children got some of infectious diseases from malnutrition. They also found that children enjoyed eating foods in the trial nursery foods program and that nutrition foods could be cheaply and easily prepared. However, due to the lack of such customs, it may not be easy to make it into a daily habit.
Some of the results of the livelihood record programs showed that if the farmers had enough crop harvest, they were self-sufficient and had cash income from selling their products. They are self-sufficient enough that family members were able to maintain health and children gain the weight healthily. The participants of the feedback meeting were interested in the results obtained from the programs. Agricultural production held the key to improving the health and nutrition of the children.
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Research Products
(3 results)
