Food Security and Nutrition in Rural Cambodia

University of British Columbia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Household Food Security

Treatments: Behavioral: Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture; Behavioral: a comparison group; Behavioral: plant-based Homestead Food Production

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01593423

H12-00451

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project is a three arm randomized control trial in rural Cambodia designed to evaluate the impact of homestead food production (home gardens) with and without fish ponds versus control on household food security, dietary intake of women and youngest child, biochemical nutritional status of women, and household livelihoods over a 22 month period. Baseline and end line surveys will be conducted that involve questionnaires and a blood sample.

Enrollment: 900 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be represented by a woman.
• Must fall within the "poor" category in terms of community wealth rankings.
• Must have access to land (including homestead) for agriculture cultivation.
• Must have sufficient access to labor to undertake the homestead production activities.
• Must have a keen interest in participating in this action.
• Must have a least one child less than five years of age (in 80% of the target households).
• Have suitable land for pond and preferably own a small pond

In addition village model farm owners will:

• Have at least 1,200 square meters of land that can be used to establish the model farm;
• Have some disposable income to invest in the model farm for fencing and land preparation;
• Be productive, open to new ideas and willing to provide assistance to other households in the village;
• Be able and willing to maintain the VMF throughout the year;
• Commit to providing inputs and marketing support to group members at least during the project.

Exclusion criteria

• None, only that they don't meet the inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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900 participants in 3 patient groups

Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture

plant-based Homestead Food Production

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: plant-based Homestead Food Production

Control

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: a comparison group