Toward community food security through transdisciplinary action research

Lam, Steven; Thompson, Michelle; Johnson, Kathleen; Fioret, Cameron; Hargreaves, Sarah K.

doi:10.1177/1476750319889390

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“…The short-term outcome of increased capacity included recruitment of postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows from partner countries. These trainees are actively engaged in the population survey and work jointly with partners, which eventually will equip them with practical research experience and skills [ 21 ]. The experiences and skills could be in designing stand-alone surveys, working within a group of various collaborators, seeing the ups and downs in field surveys, acquiring technical know-how of survey instruments and tools, and developing analysis, reporting, and writing skills.…”

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Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project

Desta

Gobena

Macuamule

et al. 2022

Emerg Themes Epidemiol

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Background Collaborative research is being increasingly implemented in Africa to study health-related issues, for example, the lack of evidence on disease burden, in particular for the presumptive high load of foodborne diseases. The FOCAL (Foodborne disease epidemiology, surveillance, and control in African LMIC) Project is a multi-partner study that includes a population survey to estimate the foodborne disease burden in four African low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our multi-partner study team had members from seven countries, all of whom contributed to the project from the grant application stage, and who play(ed) specific roles in designing and implementing the population survey. Main text In this paper, we applied Larkan et al.’s framework for successful research partnerships in global health to self-evaluate our project’s collaboration, management, and implementation process. Our partnership formation considered the interplay and balance between operations and relations. Using Larkan et al.’s seven core concepts (i.e., focus, values, equity, benefit, communication, leadership, and resolution), we reviewed the process stated above in an African context. Conclusion Through our current partnership and research implementing a population survey to study disease burden in four African LMICs, we observed that successful partnerships need to consider these core concepts explicitly, apply the essential leadership attributes, perform assessment of external contexts before designing the research, and expect differences in work culture. While some of these experiences are common to research projects in general, the other best practices and challenges we discussed can help inform future foodborne disease burden work in Africa.

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Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project

Desta

Gobena

Macuamule

et al. 2022

Emerg Themes Epidemiol

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“…One example of how coproduction of place can shape a researcher's approach to urban environmental change is illustrated in Lachmund's (2013) study of the origin and significance of Berlin's public green spaces. His work investigates how Berlin's "natural" spaces were a distinctly hybrid or coproduction of science, politics, and nature.…”

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“…Coproduction of knowledge is not just "better" information transfer, or even comprehensive integration across all relevant disciplines. Instead, coproduction of knowledge integrates only what the situation and the community requires for action (Lam et al 2019). The partners must together select what works for the group and the problem they are addressing.…”

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Coproduction of place and knowledge for ecology with the city

2021

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Ecology with the city is a transdisciplinary pursuit, combining the work of researchers, policy makers, managers, and residents to advance equity and sustainability. This undertaking may be facilitated by understanding the parallels in two kinds of coproduction. First, is how urban systems themselves are places that are jointly constituted or coproduced by biophysical and social processes. Second, is how sustainable planning and policies also join human concerns with biophysical structures and processes. Seeking connections between coproduction of place and the coproduction of knowledge may help improve how urban ecology engages with diverse communities and urban interests in service of sustainability.

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“…The variety of challenges, institutional resources and aims make it difficult to foresee specific outcomes of TDR in alimentation 54,59 . However, empirical evidence shows that TDR approaches provide a broader context for disciplinary research, inspired collaborations, innovative methodologies for integrating knowledge, transformative learning of researchers, enriched educational experiences by students, and specific community actions that induce change in people's livelihoods 48,60,61 . This approach may conceivably lead to the establishment of entirely new multidisciplinary areas of scientific investigation, e.g.…”

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The concept of alimentation and transdisciplinary research

Aguilera

2020

J Sci Food Agric

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Although the term ‘alimentation’ has existed in the English language since the late 16th century, its use is infrequent. In Latin languages, particularly French, ‘alimentation’ conveys a holistic notion of the process by which humans produce, procure, prepare, share, indulge in, and digest their foods. Thus, the concept of alimentation encompasses and integrates human, technological, sociocultural, and environmental domains. This article delves into the origins of the term ‘alimentation’ and its use in the foreign scientific literature, and particularly in the social sciences. Unlike ‘food and nutrition’, alimentation provides a broader frame for the grand challenges of what, how, and with whom we eat. This approach should lead to transdisciplinary research (TDR) interfacing several knowledge domains (e.g., environmental, technological, socio‐cultural, nutritional, etc.) and involving key stakeholders. Possible outcomes of TDR in alimentation are inspiring and meaningful collaborations, innovative methodologies for integrating knowledge, transformative learning of researchers, enriched educational experiences for students, focused community action, and improved public policy. The term ‘alimentation’ is appropriately used in French and other Latin languages. Alimentation embraces human, technological, sociocultural, and environmental issues This holistic concept views agriculture, food, and nutrition as parts of a broader process Transdisciplinary research interfaces several dimensions of food and eating. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry

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Toward community food security through transdisciplinary action research

Cited by 6 publications

References 38 publications

Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project

Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project

Coproduction of place and knowledge for ecology with the city

The concept of alimentation and transdisciplinary research

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