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Community-based development of agricultural activities aiming to improve dietary diversity in Western Kenya

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Title Community-based development of agricultural activities aiming to improve dietary diversity in Western Kenya
 
Creator Boedecker, J.
Termote, Céline
Kennedy, G.
 
Subject agriculture
biodiversity
diet
diversification
nutrition
community involvement
 
Description This research examines the suitability of community-based participatory workshops for
developing agricultural activities in order to diversify diets. The study represents the second
phase of a project consisting of a diagnostic phase covering agricultural biodiversity, diets
and nutrition (phase I), participatory development of community activities (phase II) and
a participatory implementation of the activities (phase III). The project is part of the
nutrition cross-cutting cluster work within Humidtropics, a CGIAR research programme
(CRP). A series of six participatory workshops was carried out in five sub-locations of Vihiga
County in Western Kenya. The workshops aimed to raise awareness on nutrition, to discuss
the results of the diagnostic phase (phase I) and to identify and plan community activities
to improve nutrition. Per sub-location, 36 men and women were selected to participate in
the workshops. In order to diversify diets in their communities, all sub-locations decided to plant ve-
getables and legumes and to raise poultry. The participants developed community action
plans specifying how these activities are going to be realised. In addition, they chose local
funding mechanisms to finance the actions and developed a budget. The groups also suc-
ceeded in organising an event to officially kick-off their activities and thereby reaching out
to other community members. Except for one less successful sub-location, the workshop groups well developed agricul-
tural activities for improved nutrition. Harmony within the group was a crucial factor for
good performance. Sensitivity to group dynamics is thus very important for participatory
development of community activities. It was observed that the continuous workshops built
trust between researchers and participants and that ownership was developed among the
groups. These findings are in line with similar studies on participatory intervention deve-
lopment in Africa. Other related projects in low-income countries stress the importance of
community-based approaches in improving nutrition and livelihood outcomes
 
Date 2016
2016-11-29T12:39:58Z
2016-11-29T12:39:58Z
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier Boedecker, J.; Termote, C..; Kennedy, G. (2016) Community-based development of agricultural activities aiming to improve dietary diversity in Western Kenya. [Abstract] presented at: Tropentag 2016: Solidarity in a competing world — fair use of resources. Vienna (Austria) Sep 18-21. 1 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78065
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format 1 p.
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