Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: Impact on nutritional status of preschool children

References

• Baer , R. Nutritional aspects of commercial agriculture . Paper presented at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association . Denver, Co.
   Google Scholar
• Becker , G. 1981 . A Treatise on the Family , 93 – 112 . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . Chap. 5,
   Google Scholar
• Becker , S. , Black , R.E. , Brown , K.H. and Nahar , S. 1986 . Relations between socioeconomic status and morbidity, food intake, and growth in young children in two villages in Bangladesh . Ecology of Food and Nutrition , 18 : 251 – 264 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berg , A. 1973 . The Nutrition Factor , 40 – 49 . Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institute . Chap. 4,
   Google Scholar
• Brown , K.H. , Creed , H. , Stallings , R. , Lopez de Romana , G. and Black , R.E. 1989 . Effect of common illnesses on energy intake from breast milk and other sources by Peruvian infants . FASEB J. , II : 1054
   Google Scholar
• Burbach , R. and Flynn , P. 1980 . Agribusiness in the Americas , 182 – 191 . N.Y. : Monthly Review Press .
   Google Scholar
• Carloni , A. 1984 . The Impact of Maternal Employment and Income on the Nutritional Status of Children in Rural Areas of Developing Countries: What is known, What is not known, and Where the gaps are , Administrative Committee on Coordination Subcommittee on Nutrition .
   Google Scholar
• DeWalt , B.R. , DeWalt , K.M. , Escudero , J.C. and Barkin , D. 1987 . Agrarian reform and small farmer welfare: evidence from four Mexican communities . Food and Nutrition Bulletin , 9 (3) : 46 – 52 .
   Google Scholar
• DeWalt , K.M. , Kelly , P.B. and Pelto , G.H. 1980 . “ Nutritional correlates of economic micro‐differentiation in a highland Mexican community ” . In Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Diet and Culture , Edited by: Jerome , N.W. , Kandel , R.F. and Pelto , G.H. 205 – 221 . Pleasantville, N.Y. : Redgrave Publishing Co. .
   Google Scholar
• DeWalt , K.M. 1983 . Income and dietary adequacy in an agricultural community . Social Science and Medicine , 17 (23) : 1877 – 1886 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Dewey , K.G. 1979 . Agricultural development, diet, and nutrition . Ecology of Food and Nutrition , 8 : 265 – 273 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dewey , K.G. 1981 . Nutritional consequences of the transformation from subsistence to commercial agriculture in Tabasco, Mexico . Human Ecology , 9 : 151 – 187 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dewey , K.G. , Chavez , M.N. , Gauthier , C.L. , Jones , L.B. and Ramirez , R.E. 1983 . Anthropometry of Mexican‐American migrant children in northern California . American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 37 : 828 – 833 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ferroni , M. 1980 . The Urban Bias of Peruvian Food Policy: Consequences and Alternatives , Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University . Ph.D. dissertation
   Google Scholar
• Fleuret , P. and Fleuret , A. 1980 . Nutrition, consumption, and agricultural change . Human Organization , 39 (3) : 250 – 260 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fleuret , P. and Fleuret , A. 1983 . Socioeconomic determinants of child nutrition in Taita, Kenya: a call for discussion . Culture and Agric. , 19 : 8 – 20 .
   Google Scholar
• Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato . 1984 . Programa Estatal de Alimentación Diagnóstico , Mexico : Guanajuato .
   Google Scholar
• Gonzalez , L. 1978 . Estrategias Socioeconómicas del Campesinado Frente a la Expansión de la Agricultura Comercial, Ejido de Loma Tendida, Valle de Santiago, GTO , U.I.A. Mexico. Tésis de Lic .
   Google Scholar
• Gudeman , S. 1978 . The Demise of a Rural Economy: from Subsistence to Capitalism in a Latin American Village , 121 – 141 . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul .
   Google Scholar
• Guyer , J.I. 1980 . Household Budgets and Women's Incomes , African Studies Center Working Paper # 28 Brookline, Mass.
   Google Scholar
• Hamil , P.V.V. , Drizd , T.A. , Johnson , C.L. , Reed , R.B. , Roche , A.P. and Moore , W.M. 1979 . Physical growth: National Center for Health Statistics Percentiles . American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 32 : 607 – 629 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hernandez , M. , Chavez , A. and Bourges , H. 1983 . Valor Nutritivo de los Alimentos Mexicanos: Tablas de Uso Práctico , 5 Mexico : Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición .
   Google Scholar
• Horton , S. 1988 . Birth order and child nutritional status: evidence from the Philippines . Economic Development and Cultural Change. , 36 (3) : 341 – 354 .
   Google Scholar
• Kaiser , L. and Dewey , K. 1989 . Comparison of methods to assess dietary intake: relationship to anthropometric indices of preschool children in rural Mexico . FASEB J. , II : 937
   Google Scholar
• Kaiser , L. and Dewey , K. 1991a . Migration, cash cropping, and subsistence agriculture: relationships to household food expenditures in rural Mexico . Social Science and Medicine. ,
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kaiser , L. and Dewey , K. 1991b . Household economic strategies, food resource allocation, and intra‐household patterns of dietary intake in rural Mexico . Ecology of Food and Nutrition. ,
   Google Scholar
• Kennedy , E.T. and Cogill , B. 1987 . Income and Nutritional Effects of the Commercialization of Agriculture in Southwestern Kenya , International Food Policy Research Institute, Research Report # 63 Washington, D.C.
   Google Scholar
• Korte , R. 1969 . “ The nutritional and health status of the people living on the Mwea‐Tebere irrigation settlement ” . In Investigations into Health and Nutrition in East Africa , Edited by: Kraut , H. and Cremer , H.D. 268 – 334 . München : Weltforum Verlag .
   Google Scholar
• Kumar , S. 1977 . The Role of Household Economy in Determining Child Nutrition at Low Income Levels: a Case Study in Kerala , Dept. of Agric. Economics, Cornell University Occasional Paper # 95 Ithaca, N.Y.
   Google Scholar
• Leslie , J. 1988 . Women's work and child nutrition in the third world . World Development , 16 (11) : 1341 – 1362 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marchione , T.J. 1980 . “ Factors associated with malnutrition in the children of Western Jamaica ” . In Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Diet and Culture , Edited by: Jerome , N.W. , Kandel , R.F. and Pelto , G.H. 223 – 273 . Pleasantville, N.Y. : Redgrave Publishing Company . Chap. 9
   Google Scholar
• Martorell , R. , Yarbrough , C. , Yarbrough , S. and Klein , R.E. 1980 . The impact of ordinary illnesses on dietary intakes of malnourished children . Amer. J. Clin. Nutr. , 33 : 345 – 350 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martorell , R. , Mendoza , F.S. , Castillo , R.O. , Pawson , I.G. and Budge , C.C. 1987 . Short and plump physique of Mexican‐American children . Amer. J. of Phys. Anthr. , 73 : 475 – 488 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mason , J.B. , Ahlers , T. , Henderson , C. , Shorr , I.J. and Tabataba , H. 1985 . Identifying nutritional considerations in planning a rural development project in Northern Haiti . Ecology of Food and Nutrition , 18 : 1 – 17 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Messer , E. 1977 . “ The ecology of a vegetarian diet in a modernizing Mexican community ” . In Nutrition and Anthropology in Action , Edited by: Fitzgerald , T.K. 117 – 124 . Assen/Amsterdam : Van Gorcum .
   Google Scholar
• Morgan , K.J. 1986 . Socioeconomic factors affecting dietary status: an appraisal . Amer. J. of Agric. Econ. , 68 (5) : 1240 – 1246 .
   Google Scholar
• Nietschmann , B. 1973 . Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians. Eastern Nicaragua , New York : Seminar Press .
   Google Scholar
• Plattner , S. 1974 . Wealth and growth among Mayan Indian peasants . Human Ecology , 2 : 75 – 87 .
   Google Scholar
• Popkin , B. 1983 . “ Rural women, work, and welfare in the Philippines ” . In Women and Poverty in the Third World , Edited by: Buvinic , M. , Lucette , M.A. and McGreevey , W.P. 157 – 176 . Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press . Chap. 8,
   Google Scholar
• Safilios‐Rothschild , C. 1988 . “ The impact of agrarian reform on men's and women's incomes in rural Honduras ” . In Home Divided: Women and Income in the Third World , Edited by: Dwyer , D. and Bruce , J. 216 – 228 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Seyoum , E. , Kidane , Y. , Gebru , H. and Sevenhysen , G. 1986 . Preliminary study of income and nutritional status indicators in two Ethiopian communities . Food and Nutr. Bull. , 8 (3) : 37 – 41 .
   Google Scholar
• Shack , K.W. , Grivetti , L.E. and Dewey , K.G. 1990 . Cash cropping, subsistence agriculture, and nutritional status among mothers and children in lowland Papua New Guinea . Soc. Sci. Med , 31 : 61 – 68 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Taylor , C. , Emanuel , I. , Morris , L.N. and Prosterman , R.L. 1978 . Child nutrition and mortality in the rural Philippines: is socioeconomic status important? . Trop. Ped and Envir. Child Health , 24 (2) : 80 – 86 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Tomkins , A.M. , Hayes , R.J. , Dunn , D.T. and Pickering , H. 1986 . Socioeconomic factors associated with child growth in two seasons in an urban Gambian community . Ecol. of Food and Nutr. , 18 : 107
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tripp , R.B. 1982 . Farmers and traders: some economic determinants of nutritional status in Northern Ghana . Food and Nutr. , 8 (1) : 3 – 11 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Tucker , K. and Sanjur , D. 1988 . Maternal employment and child nutrition in Panama . Soc. Sci. and Med. , 26 (6) : 605 – 612 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Valverde , V. , Martorell , R. , Mejia‐Pivaral , V. , Delgado , H. , Lechtig , A. , Teller , C. and Klein , R.E. 1977 . Relationship between family land availability and nutritional status . Ecology of Food and Nutrition , 6 : 1 – 7 .
   Google Scholar
• Valverde , V. , Mejia‐Pivaral , V. , Delgado , H. , Klein , R.E. and Martorell , R. 1981 . Income and growth retardation in poor families with similar living conditions in rural Guatemala . Ecology of Food and Nutrition , 10 : 241 – 248 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Willis , R.J. 1974 . “ Economic theory of fertility behavior ” . In Economics of the Family , Edited by: Schultz , T.W. 25 – 80 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• World Health Organization . 1983 . “ Standardization procedures for the collection of weight and height data in the field ” . In Measuring Change in Nutritional Status , 41 – 45 . Geneva : WHO .
   Google Scholar