Fig 1.
The production-own consumption and the income-food purchase pathways are two pathways that contribute to the availability and accessibility of food: A key condition for the adoption of food-based dietary guidelines to improve diet quality.
Fig 2.
Flow chart of sample selection.
hh = household. n = sample size. BF = breastfed. NBF = non-breastfed. Reclassified = from other age group to this group (different age or breastfeeding status during 24hour recall than census). 24hR = 24hour recall.
Table 1.
Demographic and social economic characteristics of children aged 6 to 23 months, their mothers and head of household and their households (n = 329).
Table 2.
Probability of adequacy of micronutrients of children’s current diet.
Table 3.
Best optimised local feasible diet for children not breastfed 12–23 months old: recommended servings per week, median servings size and recommended serving size per year.
Table 4.
Coverage of foods and food groups^ from an optimised diet of a household by their production.
Table 5.
Coverage of foods and food groups from optimised diet of a household by their production.
Table 6.
Coverage of energy and nutrients needs of a household by their production.
Table 7.
Associations between the diversity of the production of households, the food and nutrient coverage of households and the children’s diet (n = 329), using linear mixed models.
Fig 3.
Coverage food groups at household, district and national level.
Values at household level are in median (IQR); values at district level are mean (SD) based on household means from study population representing district coverage potential; and values at national level are percentages coverage (kg national food availability per capita/recommended food per capita (South African food-based dietary guidelines)*100). The grains food group at the national level also includes starchy roots (the South African guidelines does not include separate recommendations) which was not included at household and district level.