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Table 3 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the full-text review of nutrition-sensitive interventions

From: Systematic review on the impacts of agricultural interventions on food security and nutrition in complex humanitarian emergency settings

Criteria

Inclusion

Exclusion

Publication type

- Peer reviewed

- Published papers and reports

- Grey literature (working papers)

- Evidence/policy brief, conference

- Unpublished abstract, study protocol

- Meta-analysis, systematic or scoping review

Publication year

1980–2022

< 1980

Language

English

Others

Study type

- Qualitative, quantitative, or mix-method design

- Impact evaluation

- Literature review

- Feasibility study

Intervention

Any agriculture intervention used as a livelihood strategy for food or income of the household such as:

- Biofortification or harvest plus

- Homestead production or vegetable garden

- Irrigation or water management

- Value chain/crop

- Livestock and dairy

- Agriculture extension or horticulture

Any agriculture intervention not used as a livelihood strategy (e.g., leisure activity not intended for food or income of the household)

Comparator

-Studies comparing outcomes between different groups or difference before and after the intervention of the same group

- Cross-sectional studies comparing beneficiaries with non-beneficiaries

- No comparator/control group

Outcomes

- Food security

- Health/disease

- Diet and diet diversity

- Micronutrient/macronutrient intake or status

- Nutrition status/outcomes

- Anthropometry

- Nutrition awareness, perception, attitudes

- Food safety

Settings

- Countries classified with a high political instability index, or

- Country received an active humanitarian response from UN OCHA at the time of the intervention, and

- The authors explicitly mentioned that the study was conducted in CHES, or had recently experienced episodes of violent conflict (refer to Table 1 for the full list of context-related search terms) and was still affected by the consequences of the crisis

Stable or non-humanitarian (including LMIC who did not experience conflict or humanitarian crises)