Culture and Food Security

Alonso, Elena Briones; Cockx, Lara; Swinnen, Johan

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“…To effectively improve the FNS of the rural population in southeastern Madagascar, the choice of interventions must be tailored to the local context ( 30 ). The observed heterogeneity of local people's priorities and preferences regarding different interventions underscores the need to consider beneficiaries’ perceptions and preferences.…”

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Assessing Farmers’ Diverse Preferences and Expectations for Tailoring Food and Nutrition Security Interventions in Southeastern Madagascar

Tojo-Mandaharisoa

Steinke

Randrianarison

et al. 2022

Current Developments in Nutrition

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Background Severe food and nutrition insecurity persist 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. Objective To identify locally suitable options, this study assesses the perceptions of local communities in rural Atsimo Atsinanana toward a range of FNS intervention options. Methods We held twelve gender-disaggregated workshops with 80 prospective beneficiaries of an FNS project, from both inland and coastal parts of the region. Preferences were elicited for 14 potential FNS interventions. Next, through participatory ex-ante impact assessment, participants ranked eight 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 geographical location. While 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 both positive and negative expectations for most interventions, with increased labor burden being the most prominent negative impact overall. Conclusions The findings suggest that participatory, multi-dimensional impact assessments before project implementation can support development stakeholders in tailoring intervention packages, considering (i) local and gendered preferences; and (ii) trade-offs between different development objectives.

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confidence: 99%

Assessing Farmers’ Diverse Preferences and Expectations for Tailoring Food and Nutrition Security Interventions in Southeastern Madagascar

Tojo-Mandaharisoa

Steinke

Randrianarison

et al. 2022

Current Developments in Nutrition

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“…According to the World Food Summit, food security can be defined as "when all the people in the world, any time, have economically and physically access to adequate, enough, and safe nutritious Biostimulants Application: An Innovative Approach to Food Security under Drought Stress DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107055 to fulfil their dietary requirements along with food partialities to spent healthy and active life" [49]. Food security has four main components: stability, availability, utilization, and access to food [50]. Nowadays, many challenges are faced by food security, starting from the application of various fertilizers, such as phosphorous, potassium, and nitrogen, to agricultural lands [51], then the deteriorating water tables, increasing temperatures, and an abrupt increase in population as well as consumption progression [52].…”

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Biostimulants Application: An Innovative Approach to Food Security under Drought Stress

Bashir¹,

Raza²,

Rehim³

et al. 2022

Climate Change - Recent Observations [Working Title]

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Climate change is a global threat to food security as it causes various biotic and abiotic stresses that adversely disturb agriculture production. With an increase in the worldwide population, the demand for food has also arisen. It is an immediate challenge for the scientific community to introduce an innovative tool to achieve food security with quality plant production and develop tolerance against abiotic stresses, specifically drought. Genetically modifications are effective and time-consuming, while biostimulants are in/organic substances with the potential to support plant development under stress conditions. This chapter focuses on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, challenges for agriculture sustainability and food security, the interrelationship between drought, climate change and food security, the potential role of biostimulants against drought, future aspects and challenges due to climate change specifically drought, and food security challenges. Various studies reported that the application of biostimulants results in enhancement of crop productivity and mitigates the harmful effects due to climate change. To ensure the quality of chapter, we collected references from well-reputed international journals using keywords ““biostimulants,” “drought,” “food security,” “agriculture sustainability,” and “climate change.” In conclusion, biostimulants has a potential to address adverse environmental conditions without affecting crop quality and yield loss.

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“…Similarly, another factor which is often mentioned is 'culture'. There are obvious relationships between culture and food preferences, reflected in concepts such as 'food culture' (see Atkin, 2016;Briones Alonso et al, 2018). It is much less clear, however, how this would affect regulations of food products.…”

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No Terroir in the Cold? A Note on the Geography of Geographical Indications

Huysmans¹,

Swinnen²

2019

J Agricultural Economics

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Geographical Indications (GIs) are increasingly important instruments of agricultural and food regulations and are growing as contentious issues in trade negotiations and disputes. GIs can improve welfare but they can also be a protectionist instrument. The EU has the most GIs in the world, but they are concentrated in the south of the EU. Even excluding wine, there are seven times more food GIs per capita in the southern EU Member States than in other EU Member States. This note discusses several factors which may explain the geographic concentration of GIs in the south of the EU.

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Culture and Food Security

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Assessing Farmers’ Diverse Preferences and Expectations for Tailoring Food and Nutrition Security Interventions in Southeastern Madagascar

Assessing Farmers’ Diverse Preferences and Expectations for Tailoring Food and Nutrition Security Interventions in Southeastern Madagascar

Biostimulants Application: An Innovative Approach to Food Security under Drought Stress

No Terroir in the Cold? A Note on the Geography of Geographical Indications

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