Online Learning: OL 303 Vegetable Gardens & Community Gardens for Family Nutrition & Food Security
Center for Sustainable Development:
https://csd-i.org/vegetable-gardens-community-gardens-food/
OL 303 CLASS LINKS TO DOCUMENTS AND SITES SPECIFIC TO THIS COURSE
FOOD SECURITY
FAO: Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Security
http://www.fao.org/3/al936e/al936e00.pdf
FAO Household Dietary Diversity (HDDS): http://www.fao.org/nutrition/assessment/tools/household-dietary-diversity/en/
NUTRITION
FAO Family Nutrition Guide with 14 Fact Sheets
http://www.fao.org/ag/humannutrition/nutritioneducation/62758/en/
FAO a Healthy Diet. One of the 14 fact sheets on nutrition on this site
http://www.fao.org/ag/humannutrition/20736-08c321d1e1cc9ada2e7e9871da6ac67a9.pdf
FAO Nutrition Education in Primary Schools
http://www.fao.org/nutrition/education/en/
FAO Setting up and Running a School Garden
http://www.fao.org/3/a-a0218e.pdf
Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
http://www.fao.org/ag/humannutrition/nutritioneducation/49742/en/
WHO Nutrition Home
https://www.who.int/nutrition/en/
Healthy Harvest: A training manual for community workers in good nutrition, and the growing, preparing and processing of healthy food.
http://motherchildnutrition.org/healthy-nutrition/pdf/mcn-healthy-harvest.pdf
Sustainable Nutrition Manual: http://www.neverendingfood.org/sustainable-nutrition-manual/
The authors have broken this into download modules which isn’t that convenient but there’s a very good information in this book.
Improving Nutrition through Home Gardening; a training package for preparing field workers in Southeast Asia. This is an FA0 classic. It also comes in a series of download modules but there’s some very good information here.
http://www.fao.org/3/v5290e/v5290e00.htm
Improving Nutrition through Home Gardening; a training package for preparing field workers in Africa. This is an FA0 classic. It also comes in a series of download modules but there’s some very good information here.
http://www.fao.org/3/X3996E/X3996E00.htm
USDA MyPlate. The most extensive site on the Internet for actually determining what people of different ages need to eat and for building menus. Very Graphic, easy to use (except for the scale of the project) and has a number of different learning and teaching tools. Worth spending ½ hour exploring this site and finding a page that you can adapt to your situation. Download and print handouts for workshops.
https://www.choosemyplate.gov/
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS ON HOME GARDENS AND NUTRITION
If you hit a pay wall for one of these papers—just Google the name of the paper and you will find it for free somewhere.
The Role of Home Gardening in Household Food Security in Butere Division of Western Kenya.
Musotsi AA, AJ Sigot, and MOA Onyango
http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?nd08035
Improving Diet Quality and Micronutrient Nutrition: Homestead Food Production in Bangladesh; IFPRI; Lora Iannotti, Kenda Cunningham, Marie Ruel.
http://cdm15738.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getfile/collection/p15738coll2/id/24146/filename/24147.pdf
Effect of nutrition improvement project on morbidity from infectious diseases in preschool children in Vietnam: comparison with control commune; R M English, J C Badcock, Tu Giay, Tu Ngu, AM Waters, S A Bennett
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2127738/pdf/9374884.pdf/?tool=pmcentrez
Home gardens key to improved nutritional well-being; L. Bhattacharjee, S. Phithayaphone and B.K. Nandi
http://www.fao.org/3/a-ag101e.pdf
Food gardens and nutrition: three Southern African case studies. Nigel L. Webb.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjOkcXonJbhAhXP1FkKHbwiDekQFjAAegQIABAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajol.info%2Findex.php%2Fjfecs%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F52792%2F41393&usg=AOvVaw3di6ejJlc_fRhjKNkA1kcc
Do home gardens improve the nutrition of rural preschoolers in Lesotho?
Likeleli Makhotla; Sheryl Hendricks
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0376835042000265496?journalCode=cdsa20
A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions in improving nutrition outcomes.
Peter R Berti, Julia Krasevec and Sian FitzGerald
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-review-of-the-effectiveness-of-agriculture-in-Berti-Krasevec/0903a29c657a2abaaac134618f56cbd13a320d90
Productivity of Intensively Used Homestead Plots in a Central Javan Village
Robert Mitchell, Roy L. Prosterman and Akhmad Safik
https://www.landesa.org/resources/productivity-of-intensively-used-homestead-plots-in-a-central-javan-village/
Home gardens focusing on the production of yellow and dark-green leafy vegetables increase the serum retinol concentrations of 3-5-year-old children in South Africa.
Mieke Faber, Michael AS phungula, Sonja L Ventner, Muhammad A Dhansay, and AJ Spinnler Benade
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/76/5/1048/4689570
Baseline Study Documents:
FAO Dietary Diversity Questionnaire: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/eufao-fsi4dm/doc-training/hdd.pdf
Household Food Insecurity Access Scale Survey Questionnaire
Household Food Insecurity Access Scale HFIAS:
https://www.fantaproject.org/monitoring-and-evaluation/household-food-insecurity-access-scale-hfias
FAO Guidelines for measuring household and individual dietary diversity: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i1983e.pdf
GARDENING
Healthy Harvest: A training manual for community workers in good nutrition, and the growing, preparing and processing of healthy food.
http://motherchildnutrition.org/healthy-nutrition/pdf/mcn-healthy-harvest.pdf