Cristina Cleghorn

Postgraduate Student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 39574
Email address: c.l.cleghorn@leeds.ac.uk
Room: G.07, Food Science Building

Biography

Prior to starting the PhD, Cristina had been working as a Research Fellow in the Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the University of Leeds. She completed her undergraduate degree and Masters of Science in Human Nutrition at Otago University in New Zealand.

Project details

Project title

The relationship between agrobiodiversity, food security, dietary diversity and nutritional status in Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.

Supervisors

Dr Darren Dahly, Dr Susannah Sallu and Professor Janet Cade

Funding

University Research Scholarship

Start date

1st October 2010

Project outline

This project aims to investigate the relationship between agrobiodiversity, food security, dietary diversity and nutrition in Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. Nationally representative data from Demographic and Health Surveys from countries in Eastern Africa will be linked with environmental data in the areas this data was collected, to make broad conclusions about the importance of environmental factors and land cover on individuals' nutrition outcomes. Then the relationships between agrobiodiversity, food security, dietary diversity and nutrition will be explored using specifically designed data collection methods; ecological methods and a questionnaire based household interview in villages Malawi and/or Tanzania. These results will be integrated and analysed using spatial analysis.