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Changing Perception through a Participatory Approach by Involving Adolescent School Children in Evaluating Smart Food Dishes in School Feeding Programs – Real-Time Experience from Central and Northern Tanzania

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11430/
https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2020.1745788
doi:10.1080/03670244.2020.1745788
 
Title Changing Perception through a Participatory Approach by Involving Adolescent School Children in Evaluating Smart Food Dishes in School Feeding Programs – Real-Time Experience from Central and Northern Tanzania
 
Creator Wangari, C
Mwema, C
Siambi, M
Silim, S
Ubwe, R
Malesi, K
Anitha, S
Kane-Potaka, J
 
Subject Smart Foods
Participatory Modeling
Tanzania
Food and Nutrition
 
Description The study aimed to test the prospects for, and acceptance of, pigeonpea and finger millet-based dishes in a school feeding program for 2822 adolescents’ in Central Tanzania. The focus was on incorporating nutritious and resilient crops like finger millet and pigeonpea through a participatory approach involving series of theoretical and practical training sessions, for the period of 6 months on the nutritional quality and sensory characteristics of these two unexplored foods in Tanzania. Sharing knowledge on the nutritional value of these crops and involving students in the acceptance study changed their negative perception of finger millet and pigeonpea by 79.5% and 70.3%, respectively. Fifteen months after the study period, schools were still continued feeding the dishes and more than 95% of the students wanted to eat the finger millet and pigeonpea dishes at school. Around 84.2% of the students wanted to include pigeonpea 2–7 times a week and 79.6% of the students wanted to include finger millet on all 7 days in school meal. The study proved that it is possible to change food perceptions and bring about behavior change by sharing knowledge on their benefits and by engaging the consumers through a participatory and culturally appropriate approach.
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis
 
Date 2020-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11430/1/Changing%20Perception%20through%20a%20Participatory%20Approach%20by%20Involving%20Adolescent%20School%20Children%20in%20Evaluating%20Smart%20Food%20Dishes%20in%20School%20Feeding.pdf
Wangari, C and Mwema, C and Siambi, M and Silim, S and Ubwe, R and Malesi, K and Anitha, S and Kane-Potaka, J (2020) Changing Perception through a Participatory Approach by Involving Adolescent School Children in Evaluating Smart Food Dishes in School Feeding Programs – Real-Time Experience from Central and Northern Tanzania. Ecology of Food and Nutrition (TSI). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0367-0244