The School Breakfast Program Strengthens Household Food Security among Low-Income Households with Elementary School Children

Purpose Sustainable food security at the household level is one of the emerging issues for all nations. It is expected that the patterns of household resilience factors and adaptation practices have a strong linkage with household food security. The purpose of this paper is to seek an effective technique of adaptation for food security and the required types of support for adaptation to food insecurity among the poor and low-income households in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach This study was based on primary data that were collected in July-October 2012 through a questionnaire survey among 460 poor and low-income households from the Pahang, Kelantan, and Terengganu states of Malaysia. The samples were selected from E-Kasih poor household database based on a two-stage cluster random sampling technique. The study considered household food security as household food availability and food accessibility, and ran ordinal regressions to find out the linkages of household food security with household resilience factors, adaptation practices, and expected support for adaptation to food security. Findings The study concludes that several resilience factors and adaptation practices were statistically significant to household food security, and several external supports were statistically and significantly needed to ensure household food security. Therefore, to ensure sustainable household food security in Malaysia, the food security programs need to be integrated with sustainable development goals (SDGs) and climatic changes adaptation programs, and the involvement of relevant stakeholders are crucial. Originality/value This study is a pioneer work based on primary data that empirically measured the linkages of household food security with household resilience factors, adaptation practices, and expected support for adaptation to food security in Malaysia. This study also discussed some issues related to the climate change linkage, which would help future climate change research. The findings of the study will be beneficial for all the stakeholders, including policy makers related to the food security and climate change adaptation.

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Resilience, Adaptation and Expected Support for Food Security among the Malaysian East Coast Poor Households

10.31235/osf.io/hkbwn ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽

Chamhuri Siwar ◽

Abu N.M. Wahid

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

Low Income ◽

Primary Data ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Household Food ◽

Resilience Factors ◽

Adaptation Practices ◽

Low Income Households

Purpose: Sustainable food security at the household level is one of the emerging issues for all nations. It is expected that the patterns of household resilience factors and adaptation practices have a strong linkage with household food security. The aim of this study was to seek an effective technique of adaptation for food security and the required types of support for adaptation to food insecurity among the poor and low income households in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approach: This study was based on primary data that were collected in Jul-Oct 2012 through a questionnaire survey among 460 poor and low income households from the Pahang, Kelantan, and Terengganu states of Malaysia. The samples were selected from E-Kasih poor household database based on a two-stage cluster random sampling technique. The study considered household food security as household food availability and food accessibility, and ran ordinal regressions to find out the linkages of household food security with household resilience factors, adaptation practices, and expected support for adaptation to food security.Findings: The study concludes that several resilience factors and adaptation practices were statistically significant to household food security, and several external supports were statistically and significantly needed to ensure household food security. Therefore, to ensure sustainable household food security in Malaysia, the food security programs needs to be integrated with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climatic changes adaptation programs, and the involvement of relevant stakeholders are crucial.Originality/value: This study is a pioneer work based on primary data that empirically measured the linkages of household food security with household resilience factors, adaptation practices, and expected support for adaptation to food security in Malaysia. This study also discussed some issues related to the climate change linkage, which would help future climate change research. The findings of the study will be beneficial for all the stakeholders, including policy makers related to the food security and climate change adaptation.

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Validation of a Household Food Security Scale Administered to Low-Income Households with Pre-School Age Children Participating in the Mana Food Supplement Program in Antioquia, Colombia

Journal of the American Dietetic Association ◽

10.1016/j.jada.2007.05.410 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 107 (8) ◽

pp. A107

Author(s):

M. Hackett ◽

H. Melgar-Quinonez ◽

M.C.A. Uribe ◽

A. Estrada

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Low Income ◽

Food Supplement ◽

School Age Children ◽

Household Food Security ◽

School Age ◽

Household Food ◽

Low Income Households

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A school salad bar increases frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption among children living in low-income households

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980007000444 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 1490-1496 ◽

Cited By ~ 60

Author(s):

Wendelin M Slusser ◽

William G Cumberland ◽

Ben L Browdy ◽

Linda Lange ◽

Charlotte Neumann

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Los Angeles ◽

School Children ◽

Low Income ◽

Elementary School Children ◽

Vegetable Consumption ◽

Fruit And Vegetable ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Menu Option ◽

Low Income Households

AbstractObjectiveTo measure change in fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among elementary-school children after the introduction of a salad bar programme as a lunch menu option in the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) reimbursable lunch programme in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).DesignA cross-sectional sample of children was interviewed before and after a salad bar intervention (1998 and 2000, respectively) utilising a 24-hour food recall questionnaire. Frequencies of F&V consumption were calculated.SettingThe evaluation took place in three LAUSD elementary schools participating in the salad bar programme and the USDA reimbursable lunch programme.SubjectsThree hundred and thirty-seven children in 2nd–5th grade (7–11 years old).ResultsAfter the salad bar was introduced, there was a significant increase in frequency (2.97 to 4.09,P< 0.001) of F&V consumed among the children studied. The increase in frequency of F&V consumed was almost all due to an increase during lunch (84%). Mean energy, cholesterol, saturated fat and total fat intakes were significantly lower in the children after the salad bar was introduced in the schools compared with the intakes in the children before the salad bar was introduced.ConclusionA salad bar as a lunch menu option in the USDA reimbursable lunch programme can significantly increase the frequency of F&V consumption by elementary-school children living in low-income households.

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The Impacts of Climatic and Non-climatic Factors on Household Food Security: Study on Malaysian East Coast Poor

10.31235/osf.io/xdpks ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽

Chamhuri Siwar ◽

Abu N.M. Wahid

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Low Income ◽

Climatic Factors ◽

Climatic Changes ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Household Food Insecurity ◽

Personal Factors ◽

Household Food ◽

Low Income Households

Sustainable food security at household level is a national concern in many countries. The reasons for household food insecurity include social, economic, political, and personal factors as well as climatic changes and its outcomes. This research aims at finding out the linkage of the factors of climatic changes, non-climatic factors and household resiliencies with the level of household food security among the poor and low income households in Malaysia. This study is based on primary data that were collected in Jul-Oct 2012 through a questionnaire survey on 460 poor and low income households from the Pahang, Kelantan, and Terengganu States of Malaysia. The sample was selected from E-Kasih poor household database based on cluster random sampling technique. Initially the study measures household food security according to the USAID-HFIA model, and ran ordinal regressions under the logit and probit models. This study finds that household food insecurity is not only linked with social and economic factors, but also significantly linked with the climatic factors. Therefore, the food security programs need to be integrated with the adaption programs for climatic change.

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The School Breakfast Program and Breakfast-Skipping among Wisconsin Elementary School Children

Social Service Review ◽

10.1086/663635 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 85 (4) ◽

pp. 619-634 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Judith S. Bartfeld ◽

Jeong-Hee Ryu

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

School Children ◽

Elementary School Children ◽

School Breakfast Program ◽

Breakfast Skipping ◽

School Breakfast

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HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KECUKUPAN ENERGI DAN ZAT GIZI MAKRO DENGAN KETAHANAN PANGAN SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR DARI KELUARGA PETANI [Correlation of Energy and Macronutrient Adequacy Level and Food Security among Elementary School Children from Farmers Family]

Media Gizi Indonesia ◽

10.20473/mgi.v14i2.177-185 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 177

Author(s):

Nur Fatimah ◽

Triska Susila Nindya

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Food Security ◽

Elementary School Students ◽

Food Consumption ◽

School Children ◽

Elementary School Children ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Level Energy ◽

School Students

Food security is an underlying cause of malnutrition in children. Food security affects children’s quality and quantity of food consumption. Food quantity are refl ected by energy and macronutrient adequacy level (protein, fat, carbohydrate). This study aimed to analyze the association between the energy and macronutrient adequacy level with food security among elementary school children from farmer family. Study was a cross sectional study with simple random sampling. Total samples are 60 elementary school students from grade 1 to 6 at SDN Jombatan 1, SDN Jombatan 2, and SDN Jombatan 3 Jombatan Village, Kesamben Sub-district, Jombang Regency, and their parents are paddy rice farmers. Data collected by samples characteristics questionnaire, 2x24 hours food recall form, and United States – Household Food Security Survey Modul (US-HFSSM) questionnaire. Spearman correlation test were used to analyze the correlation between variables. Most of school children had insuffi cient energy and macronutrients adequacy level energy (91.7%), protein (54.2%), fat (84.8%), and carbohydrate (86.4%) respectively. More than half of farmer family were included in food insecurity without hunger (58.3%). There was signifi cant association between energy adequacy level with food security among elementary school students from farmer family (p=0.039). Nonetheless, there were no signifi cant correlation between macronutrient adequacy level such as protein (p=0.931), fat (p=0.189), and carbohydrate (p=0.104) with food security among elementary school student from farmer family. Family food security associated with the quantity of family food consumption. Increasing food security to increase energy adequacy level can be done by increasing income from non-agricultural sector.

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Soup kitchen users' social representations of healthy eating associated with their household food security status

Revista de Nutrição ◽

10.1590/1678-98652016000200007 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 229-240

Author(s):

Isabel Cristina BENTO ◽

Fernanda Martins SOBRINHO ◽

Mery Natali Silva ABREU ◽

Maria Flávia GAZZINELLI ◽

Simone Cardoso Lisboa PEREIRA

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Healthy Eating ◽

Low Income ◽

Univariate Analysis ◽

Social Representation ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Household Food ◽

Food Security Status ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

Belo Horizonte

Objective: To verify whether what users of soup kitchens in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, think about a healthy diet and the challenges they face to eat healthy are associated with their household food security status. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 1,656 users of soup kitchens in Belo Horizonte. Socioeconomic and household food security data, and healthy-eating discourses were collected by a semi-structured questionnaire. The data were submitted to descriptive analyses for constructing frequency distribution tables, and to univariate analysis. Discourse analysis was based on the social representation theory. Results: To cut, reduce, avoid, not eat, eat less, and decrease carbohydrates, salt, meats, various beverages, and other foods are the most frequent changes (71.4%) that food-secure users have made or intend to make. Food-insecure users intended to eat more fruits, non-starchy vegetables, and other foods (34.4%). The main obstacles food-secure and food-insecure users face to adopt a healthier diet are lack of time (82.9%) and low income (53.5%), respectively (p<0.001). Conclusion: What users of soup kitchens in Belo Horizonte think about food and the obstacles they face to adopt a healthier diet are related to their household food security status. The results provide valuable data for effective proposals of food and nutrition education, which should act on the producers of subjectivity in this group and consider this group's food and nutrition security status.

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