Table 1.

MAR, DDS, and food biodiversity indicators in women and children by country and season

Indicators	Benin (n = 2,439 children)		Cameroon (n = 125 children)	Congo (n = 462 women)	Ecuador (n = 258 women)	Kenya (n = 790 women, 790 children)		Sri Lanka (n = 36 women, 20 children)	Vietnam (n = 642 women, 664 children)		All (n = 2,188 women, 4,038 children)
	Wet	Dry	Wet	Wet	Wet	Wet	Dry	Wet	Wet	Dry	Wet	Dry
MAR
Women	—	—	—	0.64 ± 0.15	0.65 ± 0.12	0.62 ± 0.16	0.71 ± 0.15	0.53 ± 0.16	0.69 ± 0.13	0.67 ± 0.14	0.63 ± 0.06	0.69 ± 0.03
Children	0.44 ± 0.24	0.46 ± 0.24	0.61 ± 0.16	—	—	0.57 ± 0.20	0.64 ± 0.19	0.68 ± 0.18	0.70 ± 0.22	0.69 ± 0.16	0.60 ± 0.10	0.60 ± 0.12
DDS
Women	—	—	—	2.89 ± 1.27	5.28 ± 1.21	3.93 ± 1.13	4.13 ± 1.11	4.00 ± 1.07	4.67 ± 1.24	4.07 ± 1.20	4.16 ± 0.90	4.11 ± 0.05
Children	4.05 ± 0.97	4.08 ± 1.01	3.62 ± 0.97	—	—	3.85 ± 0.95	3.95 ± 0.99	4.45 ± 1.36	4.14 ± 1.14	4.12 ± 1.12	4.00 ± 0.33	4.06 ± 0.08
SR
Women	—	—	—	9.64 ± 3.57	16.39 ± 3.09	8.20 ± 2.02	8.51 ± 1.84	8.08 ± 2.95	9.04 ± 3.33	8.16 ± 2.88	10.27 ± 3.48	8.34 ± 0.25
Children	9.00 ± 3.20	9.21 ± 3.33	7.90 ± 2.45	—	—	8.88 ± 2.43	9.42 ± 2.51	8.80 ± 4.09	6.40 ± 2.74	6.29 ± 2.57	8.22 ± 1.11	8.31 ± 1.75
D
Women	—	—	—	0.84 ± 0.11	0.94 ± 0.02	0.81 ± 0.12	0.84 ± 0.10	0.87 ± 0.05	0.87 ± 0.06	0.83 ± 0.05	0.87 ± 0.05	0.84 ± 0.01
Children	0.79 ± 0.13	0.80 ± 0.13	0.85 ± 0.07	—	—	0.87 ± 0.46	0.88 ± 0.08	0.90 ± 0.33	0.88 ± 0.08	0.86 ± 0.06	0.86 ± 0.04	0.85 ± 0.04
FD
Women	—	—	—	0.74 ± 0.2	0.95 ± 0.26	0.45 ± 0.11	0.52 ± 0.10	0.53 ± 0.21	0.43 ± 0.12	0.42 ± 0.11	0.62 ± 0.22	0.48 ± 0.07
Children	0.57 ± 0.15	0.50 ± 0.12	0.56 ± 0.16	—	—	0.45 ± 0.13	0.53 ± 0.11	0.57 ± 0.27	0.30 ± 0.11	0.31 ± 0.10	0.50 ± 0.12	0.45 ± 0.12
Unique species*	11	17	8	17	36	9	13	14	51	65	143	98

Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo.

^*No. of different species that were only consumed in one country. Means and SDs are tabulated.