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Enhancing women's agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands - subproject 2 (NaviNut)
Project
Project code: 2820FENV02
Contract period: 21.09.2020
- 31.12.2023
Budget: 159,699 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: food processing, processing, food pattern, human nutrition, children, malnutrition, nutrition education, nutrients, cultural, nutritional information / recommendation
NaviNut investigates food environments in in rural and (peri-)urban areas of drylands in northern Benin and northern Kenya using an actor- and activity-oriented, transdisciplinary research approach with the aim of enhancing women’s agency in their different food-, nutrition- and health-related roles, and to support their capacity to navigate their rapidly changing food environments. NaviNut integrates knowledge, perspectives and interests of mothers from different socio-economic backgrounds, food processors and retailers, community health workers, regulators and various scientific disciplines. The objectives are to a) understand the complexity and dynamics of women’s decision-making in feeding their young children; b) contribute to the design of healthy food environments by increasing accessibility and desirability of locally available, highly nutritious, traditional food products; and c) improve community health services by designing appropriate nutritional dialogue models that enhance women’s learning on child nutrition. Within the project, the objectives of the SWUAS are: a) to understand current purchase and consumption criteria of mothers related to child feeding by identifying relevant visual communication contents and forms of communication; and b) to establish effective communication contents and forms appealing to the target groups’ cognitive and emotional needs as a basis for long-term acceptance of new convenience products based on TFP’s. The methodical implementation will be realised with the aid of eye tracking, supplemented by qualitative and quantitative methods for contextualising the eye tracking data. It is planned to conduct the investigations in both countries, Kenya and Benin, to a comparable extent to identify similarities but also country-specific differences in the effect of visual stimuli on the target group and thus to be able to better assess the transferability of the results to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Section overview
Subjects
- Nutritional behaviour
