Emily Hannum|Jihong Liu|Edward A. Frongillo
Poverty, food insecurity and nutritional deprivation in rural China: Implications for children's literacy achievement
University of Pennsylvania|University of South Carolina Sumter|University of South Carolina Sumter
globally food insecurity significant contextual aspect childhood 850 million people undernourished worldwide period 20062008 including 1296 million people 10 percent population china fao 2011 pp 4546 implications food insecurity childrens schooling developing country contexts poorly understood analyses survey children 100 villages northwest china show longterm undernourishment food insecurity strike poorest disproportionately exclusively longterm undernourishment matters literacy via early achievement adjusting socioeconomic status longterm undernourishment prior achievement food insecure children significantly lower literacy scores