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Title
Assessing Farmers' Diverse Preferences and Expectations for Tailoring Food and Nutrition Security Interventions in Southeastern Madagascar |
Full text
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/28883; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/28237 |
Date
2022 |
Author(s)
Tojo Mandaharisoa, Sarah; Steinke, Jonathan; Randrianarison, Narilala; Kubitza, Christoph; Konzack, Alexandra; Rafanomezantsoa, Arielle Sandrine; Randriamampionona, Denis; Sieber, Stefan; Andriamaniraka, Harilala |
Abstract
Background
Severe food and nutrition insecurity persists in Madagascar. The Atsimo Atsinanana region is among the most affected areas due to elevated poverty rates and low levels of resilience to frequent shocks. Implementing food and nutrition security (FNS) interventions could help to improve this situation, but to be effective and sustainable, intervention packages must fit the local context.
Objectives
To identify locally suitable options, this study assessed the perceptions of local communities in rural Atsimo Atsinanana toward a range of FNS intervention options.
Methods
We held 12 gender-disaggregated workshops with 80 prospective beneficiaries of an FNS project, from inland and coastal parts of the region. Preferences were elicited for 14 potential FNS interventions. Next, through participatory ex ante impact assessment, participants ranked 8 impact criteria and individually estimated expected impacts of all intervention options on these criteria.
Results
Overall, participants preferred interventions targeting on-farm crop, vegetable, and livestock production. Income and food self-sufficiency were ranked as the highest intervention priorities. However, intervention preferences differed by gender and geographic location. Whereas preferences for interventions targeting dietary habits were weak across genders, women had relatively stronger preferences for these interventions than men. This shows that collecting gender-disaggregated preferences can enable more gender-sensitive choice of interventions. Preferences also reflected local livelihoods, as more market-oriented coastal sites showed stronger interest in income generation than more subsistence-oriented inland sites. The ex ante impact assessments highlight positive and negative expectations for most interventions, with increased labor burden being the most prominent negative impact overall.
Conclusions
The findings suggest that participatory, multidimensional impact assessments before project implementation can support development stakeholders in tailoring intervention packages, considering 1) local and gendered preferences and 2) trade-offs among development objectives. - Peer Reviewed |
Subject(s)
Atsimo Atsinanana; criteria ranking; ex ante impact assessment; food security; smallholder farmers; 610 Medizin und Gesundheit; ddc:610 |
Language
eng |
Publisher
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Type of publication
article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion |
Format
application/pdf |
Rights
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Identifier
2475-2991; urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/28883-3; 10.1093/cdn/nzac142 |
Repository
Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
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