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Data on 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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Title Data on 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
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/AQPBOL
 
Creator Christine Wangari
Catherine Mwema
Moses Siambia
Said Silim
Rose Ubwe
Kathleen Malesi
Seetha Anitha
Joanna Kane-Potaka
 
Publisher ICRISAT Dataverse
 
Description This dataset has data about a study to test the prospects for, and acceptance of, pigeon pea and finger millet-based dishes in a school feeding program for 2822 adolescents’ in Central Tanzania. The study focuses on incorporating these crops through a participatory approach involving a series of theoretical and practical training sessions, for the period of 6 months on the nutritional quality and sensory characteristics 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 pigeon pea 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 pigeon pea dishes at school. Around 84.2% of the students wanted to include pigeon pea 2–7 times a week and 79.6% of the students wanted to include finger millet on all 7 days in a 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.
Project
This dataset is generated as part of the project Smart Foods Myanmar and Tanzania.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Senses
Finger Millet
Pigeon Pea
Smart Food
 
Language English
 
Date 2020-03-31
 
Contributor Dataverse, Administrator
 
Type Primary survey data