Analysis of Literacy Skills on Community Nutrition, Land Empowerment and Product Diversification to Supports pre valency stunting in West Sumatera.

Abstract

The number of stunting toddlers cases in West Sumatera is higher than the National average. Parents’ low understanding of nutrition is one of the reasons why stunting might be happened to the children, beside economy factors. This study has been conducted to analyze the degree of knowledge of adolescents and mothers of toddlers, especially families at risk of stunting, regarding nutritional knowledge, land empowerment and product diversification. A pre-test was given to 200 participants that are adolescents and mothers of risk stunting children. The activities are conducted in two districts of West Sumatra Province, there are 100 people in each of the Agam and 50 Kota districts. After pre-test, counseling was provided by delivering some materials related to digital literacy of nutrition, land empowerment as a provider of nutritious food ingredients, and diversification of healthy and nutritious products based on local ingredients. Each topic was delivered in the separated days. After giving all materials, the posttest was given. All answers of pretest and posttest were analyzed. The result of the analyzed pretest data shows that the level of participants’ knowledge is very low because only around 2 questions can be answered correctly. Meanwhile, after getting all 3 topics related to the nutrition knowledge, all questions can be answered correctly. It indicates that the improvement of nutrition knowledge for West Sumatera residents is needed. The solution of this nutrition knowledge problem to reduce stunting is improving literacy both digitally and offline modes about nutrition, and others knowledge related to it.