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Strengthening the Resilience of Rural Food Environments in the Context of Disaster Risk and Climate Change in Mozambique - subproject 1 (FEMOZ)
Project
Project code: 2820FENV03
Contract period: 01.03.2021
- 29.02.2024
Budget: 1,152,806 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: food pattern, nutrition education, food security, climate protection, risk management, nutrition, rural development, nutrition education, malnutrition, climate change adaptation, education, market, policy, risk management, consumer behaviour
The FEMOZ project aims at strengthening the resilience of rural food environments in the context of disaster risk and Climate Change in Mozambique. The food environment mediates the interactions between consumers and markets and signals consumers what to purchase. The projects’ conceptual framework of food environments consists of an external domain (including the dimensions of food availability, prices, markets and product’s properties, marketing and regulation), as well as a personal domain (including the dimensions of accessibility, affordability, convenience and desirability), both considered in the context of disaster risks and Climate Change. The objectives of FEMOZ target not only the measurement of the different dimensions of the food environment in the different target regions of the project, and with it to help evaluating, how potential rural development interventions for increasing agricultural production, rising incomes, or for reducing food prices, would ultimately and effectively reflect on populations diets and nutrition; but targets also the creation of change in the food environment through awareness and knowledge formation around good practices in the different dimensions of the food environment and further changes in behavior, practices and performances for improving Food Security and Nutrition. For this purpose, FEMOZ establishes an innovative three-tier long-term R&D infrastructure, consisting of: i) a 'Living Lab'; ii) a 'Science-Policy-Society Interface (SPSI)', and iii) a 'Capacity Development Hub (CDH)'. With this approach, FEMOZ assures that co-research in the 'Living Lab' on the different dimensions of the food environment, is up-scaled, out-scaled, and deep-scaled from the outset. The project is designed to translate research findings into action, capacitating stakeholders, and disseminating best practices for enhancing food environments in targeted rural settings.
Section overview
Subjects
- Resource management
- Agroeconomics
- Nutritional behaviour
