Investigating Seasonal Agriculture, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy in Burkina Faso

Seasonal shifts in community-level agricultural production and their impact on the severity of the annual hunger season and household coping behaviors are important themes in climate change-health research. The relationship between seasonal variability, childbearing, and reproductive health, however...

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Published in:The Professional geographer 2023-09, Vol.75 (5), p.787-802
Main Authors: Grace, Kathryn, Kristiansen, Devon, Boyle, Elizabeth Heger, Luetke, Maya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Agricultural production
Averages
Birth control
Birth intervals
Births
cambio climático
Childbearing
Climate change
Contraception
contraceptive use
Contraceptives
Coping
estacionalidad
Family planning
fertilidad
Fertility
Growing season
Hunger
Individual differences
Mothers
Pregnancy
Quality assessment
Regression analysis
Regression models
Reproductive health
Seasonal variations
seasonality
Seasons
uso de anticonceptivos
Women
Womens health
África
季节性
气候变化
生育率
避孕药具的使用
非洲
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Summary:Seasonal shifts in community-level agricultural production and their impact on the severity of the annual hunger season and household coping behaviors are important themes in climate change-health research. The relationship between seasonal variability, childbearing, and reproductive health, however, is less well understood. In this research, we combine detailed, spatially referenced Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) data collected for Burkina Faso in 2017 and 2018 and a community-specific measure of seasonal agricultural quality to assess the relationship between seasonal agricultural variation and individual-level fertility and two dimensions of reproductive health: contraceptive use and pregnancy. We also incorporate data related to the family planning service environment. Results from cross-sectional regression models indicate that a better than average agricultural season might increase contraceptive use among all women, and analyses of monthly behaviors during and just after the growing season suggest that better than average growing season conditions might actually reduce contraceptive use among women who have no children or who are in their prime childbearing years. The results therefore indicate that women who are building their families might be less likely to use contraception and are perhaps more interested in timing births to occur following better than average growing seasons.
ISSN:0033-0124
1467-9272
DOI:10.1080/00330124.2023.2199316