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Food Security and Nutrition in Rural Cambodia

NCT01593423 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 900

Last updated 2023-05-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Household Food Security

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

plant-based Homestead Food Production

The village model farm will be provided with the necessary inputs to establish their farm including saplings seeds etc.

BEHAVIORAL

Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture

In the case of the aquaculture arm a pond will be dug if there is not an existing pond and fingerlings and brood stocks will be provided. Hatcheries will be established if there is not one within a reasonable distance of the farms.

BEHAVIORAL

a comparison group

No intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tim Green, PhD · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • Cambodia

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