In the third of her blog reports from Vietnam, Jessica Raneri, Nutrition Programme Specialist, Bioversity International, explains some of the emerging findings from research in the Mai Son district in Son La Province to assess local food biodiversity and identify opportunities for improving diet quality and diversity. In my last blog, I reported on collecting baseline data from 400 households in four rural and farming communes of Mai Son district in Son La Province. This stage was to identify the current availability, access and use of agricultural biodiversity, nutrition knowledge and … [Read more...]
Nutrition in Kenya: Why Community Action to Improve Nutrition Includes a Side Order of Termites
This is a follow-up story on a series of special reports published in 2015 from Vihiga County, Kenya, where Humidtropics researchers are empowering the community to better use available agricultural biodiversity to improve nutrition all the year round. In this report, the author describes a series of events organized by the communities to start the interventions that aim to improve their nutrition. These events included everyone bringing along their diverse local food dishes, including a dish of living termites which are a great source of animal protein. Rural populations in developing … [Read more...]
Nutrition in Kenya: Putting Nutritious Diversity Back on the Plate
This is Part 1 of three special reports from Vihiga County, Kenya, where a Humidtropics research project is empowering the community to better use available agricultural biodiversity to improve nutrition all the year round. What is the research initiative? In August 2014, Humidtropics researchers from Bioversity International launched a research project entitled A Participatory approach to improve dietary diversity in Vihiga County. The project supports communities to develop, implement and monitor their own action plans for sustainable production of nutritious foods to improve dietary … [Read more...]