Farm production diversity and individual-level dietary diversity. Response to: ‘Not all dietary diversity scores can legitimately be interpreted as proxies of diet quality’ by Vergeret al.

Not all dietary diversity scores can legitimately be interpreted as proxies of diet quality - CORRIGENDUM.

In the above paper, the authors name Koppmair was misspelt. The sentences: We read with great interest the recently published article 'Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi' by Koopmair and colleagues. In their study, Koopmair and colleagues collected 24 h dietary recall data of household 12 members combined, as well as of individual children below the age of 5 years an...

Farm Production Diversity and Dietary Diversity in Developing Countries

Associations between Dietary Diversity Scores and Obesity Phenotypes in Women

Background and Objectives: Dietary diversity is a proxy measurement of overall dietary quality. The aim of this study was to assess relationships between dietary diversity score and obesity phenotypes in women, Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 197 women aged ≥ 25 years from Municipal District 7 of Tehran were participated. Food intakes were calculated using s...

Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi

OBJECTIVE The association between farm production diversity and dietary diversity in rural smallholder households was recently analysed. Most existing studies build on household-level dietary diversity indicators calculated from 7d food consumption recalls. Herein, this association is revisited with individual-level 24 h recall data. The robustness of the results is tested by comparing househol...

Dietary Diversity as a Food Security Indicator

Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate measure of food security outcomes is useful in order to identify the food insecure, assess the seve...