Project summary
NaviNut investigates food environments in East and West African drylands 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. NaviNut will work in rural and (peri-)urban areas of drylands in northern Benin and northern Kenya to capture changing lifestyles and nutritional habits, and to increase the scope for outscaling its results in sub-Saharan Africa.
Consortium
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German institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, and Transdisciplinary and Social-ecological Landuse Research (DITSL)
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South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences |
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PROmoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically oriented agriculture and NRM |
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Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development (TICH) |
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Faculty of Agronomy, University of Parakou andDepartment of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Parakou |
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Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi |
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Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) |
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Center for Research and Development in Drylands (CRDD) |