Can better food systems boost nutrition for Mozambique's poorest?
NCT ID NCT05858151
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study evaluates a program that aims to improve diets by making healthy foods like fish, chicken, and eggs more available and affordable for low-income households in Mozambique. Researchers will survey over 5,000 men and women to see if the program increases how often they eat these foods. The goal is to understand what works to improve nutrition in vulnerable communities.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Food system and demand generation (behavioral intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show how market-based approaches can improve diets and nutrition for low-income families in Mozambique.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational evaluation, not a controlled trial, so results may not prove cause and effect. The program's impact may vary across different communities.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 5,216 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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May 2023
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Household Surveys Inclusion Criteria: * Reside in the enumeration areas; * Be a man ≥ 18 years or a woman 18-49 years; * The household earns \<$3.20 per person per day; * Be able to speak one of the main local languages and/or Portuguese; * Provide informed consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Have a mental or psychological illness that prevents them from understanding the study; * Have any physical illness that prevents them from being safely and constructively involved in the investigation; * Be under the age of 18 years at the time of the study. Market Actor Surveys Inclusion Criteria: * Be a retailer of fish, chicken or eggs in one of the markets in the districts selected for the evaluation; * Be over 18 years old; * Be able to speak one of the main local languages and/or Portuguese; * Provide informed consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Have a mental or psychological illness that prevents them from understanding the study; * Have any physical illness that prevents them from being safely and constructively involved in the investigation; * Be under the age of 18 years at the time of the study. In-depth interviews with market actors: Inclusion criteria: * Be a food transporter, trader, large-scale retailer, government official or other stakeholder involved in market-related activities in the fish, chicken or egg value chains in the intervention districts selected for the evaluation; * Be over 18 years old; * Be able to speak one of the main local languages and/or Portuguese; * Provide informed consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Have any mental or psychological illness that prevents them from understanding the study * Have any physical illness that prevents them from being safely and constructively involved in an investigation; * Be under the age of 18 at the time of the study. Focus group discussion (FGD) participants will be selected from lists of participants in the market actor and household surveys and will be consented again for the FGDs if they meet the following criteria: FGDs) with market actors: Inclusion criteria: * Be a small-scale retailer of fish, chicken, or eggs in intervention districts selected for the evaluation; * Be over 18 years old; * Be able to speak one of the main local languages and/or Portuguese; * Provide informed consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Have any mental or psychological illness that prevents them from understanding the study; * Have any physical illness that prevents them from being safely and constructively involved in an investigation; * Be under the age of 18 at the time of the study. FGDsocus group discussions with households: Inclusion criteria: * Belong to a BoP household living in a community in the intervention districts selected for the evaluation; * Be over 18 years old; * Be able to speak one of the main local languages and/or Portuguese; * Provide informed consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Have any mental or psychological illness that prevents them from understanding the study * Have any physical illness that prevents them from being safely and constructively involved in an investigation; * Be under the age of 18 at the time of the study.
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Conditions
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Maputo, Mozambique