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Availability and accessibility of indigenous foods in Gauteng region, South Africa 南非豪登地区本土食品的可用性和可获得性
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1385230
H. Kesa, Alex D. Tchuenchieu Kamgain, M. Zuma, X. Mbhenyane
{"title":"Availability and accessibility of indigenous foods in Gauteng region, South Africa","authors":"H. Kesa, Alex D. Tchuenchieu Kamgain, M. Zuma, X. Mbhenyane","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1385230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1385230","url":null,"abstract":"While South Africa maintains national food security, food insecurity persists at the household level, with not all households having access to sufficient food. Proposals to address this include promoting the consumption of indigenous foods (IF). However, urbanization in the Gauteng region has sparked a nutrition transition, characterized by increased consumption of Western diets, resulting in rising rates of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases. This study sought to assess the availability and accessibility of indigenous foods in the region for residents. A quantitative cross-sectional research survey was conducted in the Gauteng region, involving 746 participants who provided insights into their ways of acquiring indigenous foods and rated their overall availability. Additionally, the survey gathered opinions on IF availability across different settings and collected suggestions for improving IF accessibility. Among a list of 18 South African indigenous foods, between 55.2 and 77.2% of participants did not know where they could be obtained. Acquisition through vendors, with a maximum of 14% of respondents, emerged as relatively more popular compared to food markets, spaza shops, supermarkets, and home gardens. The majority of surveyed participants (55%) perceived indigenous foods as unavailable in the region. Agreement rates for the availability of indigenous foods for sale or serving in various settings were 53.5% for supermarkets, 42% for schools, 44.2% for hospitals, and 37.5% for workplaces. Respondents suggested several strategies to enhance IF accessibility in the region, including marketing, home gardens, farms, supermarkets, education, elders, restaurants, and schools/universities. Overall, there is a need for increased education on the nutritional benefits of indigenous foods and the implementation of policies to improve their accessibility in urbanized provinces like Gauteng.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141385794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability 网络嵌入性、创业创新和家庭农场的可持续性
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1361882
Haixia Duan, Zhaochen Wang, Zhaohui Yi, Xiaohua Su
{"title":"Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability","authors":"Haixia Duan, Zhaochen Wang, Zhaohui Yi, Xiaohua Su","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1361882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1361882","url":null,"abstract":"Family farm sustainability is an essential guarantee for increasing the resilience of food systems. Based on the network embeddedness theory and entrepreneurial bricolage theory, an exploratory longitudinal case study was adopted. The value-creating behaviors of family farms in different entrepreneurial periods were described and a process model of family farms sustainability with network embeddedness and entrepreneurial bricolage was constructed. The study revealed that family farms faced resource constraints such as shortage of element resources, insufficient market resources and lack of knowledge resources during the induction, start-up, and growth periods, respectively. In order to overcome resource constraints in different entrepreneurial periods, family farms employed multiple network embeddedness ways including relational embeddedness, structural embeddedness and cognitive embeddedness to seek help from actors in the rural social network. Family farms embedded in multiple networks used the entrepreneurial bricolage strategy of “element bricolage – market bricolage – institutional bricolage” to continuously acquire production elements, improve brand awareness, optimize processing techniques and promote the convergence of three industries. Family farms benefited from a win-win result with actors through network embeddedness and entrepreneurial bricolage, and created economic, social and ecological values eventually. The study offers fresh insights into the dynamics of rural entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141382423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Is human activity driving climate change? Perspectives from Australian landholders 是人类活动导致了气候变化吗?澳大利亚土地所有者的观点
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1392746
Stephanie Hernandez, Hanabeth Luke, Mathew Stephen Alexanderson
{"title":"Is human activity driving climate change? Perspectives from Australian landholders","authors":"Stephanie Hernandez, Hanabeth Luke, Mathew Stephen Alexanderson","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1392746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1392746","url":null,"abstract":"Australian agriculture and the rural communities that depend upon it are expected to experience significant impacts from climate change. The recognition of the human role in climate change is central in the design and implementation of effective strategies to mitigate and adapt to its impacts. Understanding the extent to which members of the public, such as private landholders, acknowledge human-caused climate change is critical, given their role as custodians of large tracts of natural resources. Rural social benchmarking studies are a useful tool for understanding landholder values and beliefs. Here, we use a rural social benchmarking survey to examine landholder agreement regarding the extent to which humans contribute to climate change across four Australian agricultural regions. We perform hierarchical clustering analysis to determine subgroups of landholders with similar patterns of survey responses. We then evaluate this effect of cluster membership and demographic characteristics using Bayesian ordinal regression on levels of agreement with the statement “that human activities are influencing climate change.” Our findings reveal three distinct clusters based on patterns of responses to survey questions eliciting participants values beliefs and norms. Cluster membership exhibits the strongest positive influence on agreement (0.52, 95% CI: 0.37 to 0.67). This was followed by higher education levels (0.32, 95% CI: 0.22 to 0.41). Gender showed a moderately uncertain but positive influence. Years residing on the property, participant age, and property size showed very little influence, while rainfall zones showed a negative influence of-0.29 (95% CI: −0.47 to-0.12). Our results underscore the need for extension programs to consider landholder typologies based on a combination of lived experience and demographics.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"58 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141385561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Testing the effect of descriptive dynamic social norm messages on meatless food purchases in Aotearoa New Zealand and UK university food outlets 测试描述性动态社会规范信息对在新西兰奥特亚罗瓦和英国大学食品店购买无肉食品的影响
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1260343
Vibhuti Patel, Miranda Mirosa, Nicola J. Buckland
{"title":"Testing the effect of descriptive dynamic social norm messages on meatless food purchases in Aotearoa New Zealand and UK university food outlets","authors":"Vibhuti Patel, Miranda Mirosa, Nicola J. Buckland","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1260343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1260343","url":null,"abstract":"A reduction in meat consumption is urgently needed to address multiple harms related to the environment, animal welfare, and human health. Social norm interventions have been found to be feasible and effective at shifting consumer behaviour, however, evidence related to meat reduction behaviour is limited – especially in naturalistic settings. Two social norm interventions were conducted at university food outlets in Aotearoa New Zealand and in the UK, to assess the effect of social norm messages on meat and meatless food purchases. Both interventions consisted of a week-long intervention phase during which descriptive dynamic social norm messages referring to reduced meat intake were displayed in the food outlets (study one and two) and via social media (study two). Meat and meatless food purchases during the interventions were compared to pre- and post-intervention weeks. Surveys were also conducted with a sub-group of customers to assess demographics, dietary habits, and awareness of the social norm message. In both studies, there was no significant effect of the social norm interventions on meat or meatless food purchases, and awareness of the norms message across both studies was low. These findings indicate that social norm interventions alone may be ineffective in encouraging meat reduction. Implications for interventions to reduce meat intake to support pro-environmental food choices are discussed.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"33 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140377039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Medicinal plants, biodiversity, and local communities. A study of a peasant community in Venezuela 药用植物、生物多样性和当地社区。对委内瑞拉一个农民社区的研究
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1343597
Olga Monagas, Iselen Trujillo
{"title":"Medicinal plants, biodiversity, and local communities. A study of a peasant community in Venezuela","authors":"Olga Monagas, Iselen Trujillo","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1343597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1343597","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this research was to record ethnobotanical data on the use and exploitation of medicinal plants, highlighting their importance for the biodiversity, culture, and tradition of a peasant community in Venezuela.The study involved a population of 120 individuals, from which a sample size of 34 people was calculated using the formula for finite populations. A simple random sampling technique was employed, and all the participants were administered the TRAMIL (Traditions Medicine in Island) survey.The ethnopharmacological table was constructed, and descriptive statistics were used for analysis.A total of 116 species of medicinal plants were documented to treat various health conditions. The informants reflected through their responses that they used medicinal plants in the first instance to address a health condition, employing varied forms of plant preparation, which include decoction (65.16%), raw consumption (16.77%), maceration (8.38%), and infusion (7.09%). The most commonly used plant parts are leaves, flowers, fruits, bark, peels, roots, and bulbs, while the most commonly used botanical families are Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, Rutaceae, Malvaceae, Verbenaceae, Acanthaceae, Asteraceae, and Euphorbaceae. On the other hand, the species with the highest TRAMIL Significant Use Level were Oregano orejón (Coleus amboinicus Lour.) (68.29), Malojillo [Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf.] (60.97), Tua (Jatropha gossypiifolia L.) (34.15), Colombiana [Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.) Pers.] (34.15), Poleo [Micromeria brownei (Sw.) Benth.] (29.27), Pasote (Chenopodium ambrosioides L.) (29.27), Llantén (Plantago major L.) (26.83), Te negro [Phyla stoechadifolia (L.) Small] (26.83), Yerbabuena (Mentha sp.) (21.85), and Curia (Justicia pectoralis Jacq.) (21.95).The community of El Onoto de El Valle de Tucutunemo, Aragua State, Venezuela has a notable utilization of medicinal plant species in their instance to treat different health conditions, with the predominant focus on treating flu and stomach ailments. It is important to emphasize that all individuals approached through various data collection instruments reported using medicinal plants, both individually and within their families, spanning a wide range of ages from children to the elderly. This reflects that the use of medicinal plants is part of their cultural heritage and ancestral roots.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140375441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Factors affecting decisions of farmers to produce geographical indication dry beans: a case from Turkey 影响农民生产地理标志干豆决策的因素:土耳其的一个案例
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1348090
N. Doğan, H. Adanacıoğlu
{"title":"Factors affecting decisions of farmers to produce geographical indication dry beans: a case from Turkey","authors":"N. Doğan, H. Adanacıoğlu","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1348090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1348090","url":null,"abstract":"Geographical indications (GIs) are defined as labels that show the relationship of a product with a certain region. They are of great importance in terms of distinguishing these products from the similar ones in terms of the quality that the characteristic features of the region bring to the product, making them stand out commercially, contributing to the rural development and preserving the cultural heritage. Dry beans cultivated by the farmers in the Gümüşhane province is newly recognized as a GI product that is unique in both taste and quality. This study is intended to identify the factors affecting the farmers’ decision to produce GI-labelled dry beans. The survey was conducted in January–March 2021. A sampling size of the participants consisted of 50 farmers who cultivated GI-labelled dry beans and 50 non-GI dry beans. A binary logistic regression analysis approach was employed to identify the factors affecting the likelihood of the farmers cultivating the GI dry beans. The results of the model indicate that the young farmers with the low educational level, the low property land size, the low yield per decare, and the large farmland, the high annual agricultural income and specializing in the dry beans production are more likely to engage in the production of GI dry beans. For the farms involving the GI product, agricultural associations can be advised with the farmers with the wider agricultural acreage and the high annual agricultural income, and that specialize in the production of such products. The participation of the farmers in the agriculture enterprises involving the GI dry beans will depend on them seeing positive widespread effects, which requires a long-term commitment.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140376766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Low-cost small-scale irrigation for developing an agroforestry system in the semi-arid zone of Niger: case of the apple of the Sahel (Ziziphus mauritiana L.) 在尼日尔半干旱地区发展农林系统的低成本小规模灌溉:萨赫勒苹果(Ziziphus mauritiana L.)案例
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1282235
Bouba Traore, Aboubacar D. K. T. Illiasso, Moussa Soulé, Mahaman Zaharadine Arzika, Ibrahima Abdoussalam, A. Moussa, Ibrahim Mana Koudoussou, Martin Moyo
{"title":"Low-cost small-scale irrigation for developing an agroforestry system in the semi-arid zone of Niger: case of the apple of the Sahel (Ziziphus mauritiana L.)","authors":"Bouba Traore, Aboubacar D. K. T. Illiasso, Moussa Soulé, Mahaman Zaharadine Arzika, Ibrahima Abdoussalam, A. Moussa, Ibrahim Mana Koudoussou, Martin Moyo","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1282235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1282235","url":null,"abstract":"Cultivation of the ‘Apple of the Sahel’ (also known as Indian Jujube) is central to the food security, nutrition, and income of rural communities in developing countries like Niger. However, rainfall variability significantly impacts the development of this plant. This study aims to determine the effects of seasonal water regimes on the growth and productivity of the Apple of the Sahel. The trials were conducted in 2020 and 2021 during the rainy and dry seasons at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) experimental site in Sadore, Niamey, Niger. The experiment was arranged in a factorial design with three irrigation doses (D) and three irrigation systems (G) as main and subplot factors, respectively. The sub-subplot factors were irrigation frequencies (F) and growth boosters (B), each with two levels. In the dry season, irrigation dose application significantly (p = 0.001) increased soil volumetric water content (vwc). A similar increase in soil vwc was achieved under small-scale drip irrigation with an application of the same dose of organic material (p = 0.001). The diameter of the Apple of the Sahel trees significantly increased (p = 0.03) under the small-scale drip irrigation systems with 6.72 mm recorded under the two-drip irrigation system (G2) as compared with the manual system (G0). In the dry season, the total fruit harvest of Apple of the Sahel recorded had increased (p = 0.04) under the irrigated system, varying from 112 to 246% depending on the number of drippers, and compared to the manual system. These results highlight that small-scale drip irrigation should be used in combination with appropriate water and fertilizer management to improve water availability and tree yield in agroforestry systems in arid regions such as Niger.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"48 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140376866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using the Net-Map tool to analyze stakeholder networks in the city region food systems of seven European cities 利用 "网络地图 "工具分析七个欧洲城市的城市地区食品系统中的利益相关者网络
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1315399
Melissa Leimkühler, Kathrin Specht, Barbara Schröter, Anna Wissmann, Chiara Iodice, R. Fox-Kämper, Ann-Kristin Steines, Francesca Monticone, Antonella Samoggia, G. C. Modarelli, Lélia Reynaud-Desmet, Adam Curtis, Isabella Righini, Michele D’Ostuni, Jaime Ramón, Samir Amghar, J. Pascual-Fernández
{"title":"Using the Net-Map tool to analyze stakeholder networks in the city region food systems of seven European cities","authors":"Melissa Leimkühler, Kathrin Specht, Barbara Schröter, Anna Wissmann, Chiara Iodice, R. Fox-Kämper, Ann-Kristin Steines, Francesca Monticone, Antonella Samoggia, G. C. Modarelli, Lélia Reynaud-Desmet, Adam Curtis, Isabella Righini, Michele D’Ostuni, Jaime Ramón, Samir Amghar, J. Pascual-Fernández","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1315399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1315399","url":null,"abstract":"The current global food system is characterized by anonymity in the value chain, global food trade, loss of knowledge about food sources, and a distant producer-consumer relationship. In addition, the negative environmental impacts of the agricultural sector, such as pollution, degradation of soil and water quality, loss of biodiversity, and significant greenhouse gas emissions, make this sector a major driver of climate change. In contrast, the city region food system (CRFS) approach captures the complexity of a food system and its actors at the local level. It aims to meet the requirements of sustainable transformation along the food value chain and offers an alternative approach to the challenges of the global food system. However, the actors and their relationships in CRFS are rarely analyzed. To fill this gap, this study focuses on analyzing CRFSs as networks using the Net-Map tool to study different CRFS in seven European cities (Bologna, Naples, Lansingerland, Tenerife, Oslo, Dortmund, and Romainville). The aim of this paper is to concentrate on the method and to show how the Net-Map tool can effectively support the evaluation of the CRFS by identifying different actor roles, recognizing patterns of relationships. Additionally, the strengths and weaknesses of the network can be assessed by a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis. The paper highlights the limitations, advantages, and practical use of the Net-Map tool and discusses potential transferability to other case studies.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"34 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140377035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Breaking ground: transformative partnerships for inclusive bean breeding in Zimbabwe 突破:津巴布韦包容性豆类育种的变革性伙伴关系
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1155856
E. Nchanji, Nyarai Chisorochengwe, Shylet Tsekenedza, Freeman Gutsa, James Ndambuki Musyoka, C. Lutomia
{"title":"Breaking ground: transformative partnerships for inclusive bean breeding in Zimbabwe","authors":"E. Nchanji, Nyarai Chisorochengwe, Shylet Tsekenedza, Freeman Gutsa, James Ndambuki Musyoka, C. Lutomia","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1155856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1155856","url":null,"abstract":"Common bean is often considered a woman’s crop because they play important roles from production to marketing. However, breeding programs often focus on farmers without adequate attention to the interconnectedness between gender and other socioeconomic variables and how they influence varietal and trait preferences of other value chain actors. This study analyzed gendered differences in bean production and trade, implications of socioeconomic conditions on bean production and marketing, and the role of partnerships in closing gender gaps in the bean value chain in Zimbabwe. The results obtained from the analysis of survey data collected from 131 farmers and 18 trades revealed beans as a dual-purpose crop for male and female farmers and traders. Varietal and trait preferences were the same for both male and female farmers and traders but were prioritized differently. While female farmers prioritized cooking time, men farmers prioritized biofortification and market traits. Whereas male traders equally preferred price, color, and appearance, female traders prioritized price over color and appearance. Poverty and marital statuses of respondents influenced the number of varieties preferred by male and female farmers. We found that the effectiveness of partnerships in closing gender gaps in marketing is variety specific. While having partners closed the gender gaps in the marketing of the NUA45 variety, such partnerships did not have the same effect on closing gender gaps in the marketing of Cherry, Gloria, and other varieties. The results show that considering socioeconomic characteristics of actors and partnerships can reduce gender disparities in the bean value chain. Therefore, breeding programs should recognize the interconnectedness between socioeconomic variables and gender when developing breeding products.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"20 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140377393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Exploring popular information sources and determinants of farmers’ access to agricultural extension services in the Indo-Gangetic plains 探索印度洋-甘地平原地区农民获得农业推广服务的流行信息来源和决定因素
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1339243
Subhashree Sahu, Sitaram Bishnoi, Ph. Romen Sharma, Satyapriya, G. Mahra, Rajarshi Roy Burman, S. Barua, M. Misha Madhavan, V. Sangeetha, Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, Rahul Singh, M. Wason, Pratibha Joshi, Shailendra Sharma
{"title":"Exploring popular information sources and determinants of farmers’ access to agricultural extension services in the Indo-Gangetic plains","authors":"Subhashree Sahu, Sitaram Bishnoi, Ph. Romen Sharma, Satyapriya, G. Mahra, Rajarshi Roy Burman, S. Barua, M. Misha Madhavan, V. Sangeetha, Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, Rahul Singh, M. Wason, Pratibha Joshi, Shailendra Sharma","doi":"10.3389/fsufs.2024.1339243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1339243","url":null,"abstract":"A study was undertaken to analyse farmers’ access to various agricultural extension service sources, their preferences and to delineate underlying determinants for their access. The study used NSSO 77th survey dataset of 14,782 households of IGP states (Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal). Farmers’ preferences varied, with private agencies—particularly input dealers—emerging as the top choice, followed by traditional mass media channels and the public extension system. Utility of Cooperative model, and farmer-based organizations have not yet been fully explored for information needs. The inputs (seeds, fertilizers, plant protection) were the most sought-after information. However, in an era of changing needs, farmers should strive to acquire additional information on aspects such as marketing, climate change, and post-harvest functions. The type of information sought by the farmers, influences their preferred sources of extension services. Irrespective of the source, the degree of access diminishes with the decreasing landholding. Among the five IGP states, Haryana emerged as the champion of information access for farmers, while Bihar lagged. Multivariate probit analysis reported that the likelihood of access to agricultural information sources was positively influenced by age, gender, education, size of operational landholding, irrigated area, and sale of produce at MSP. The study suggests making the extension services for small and socio-economically marginalized farmers more inclusive. Inclusiveness of extension services is essential for sustainability because it ensures that all farmers, regardless of their landholding, gender, age, caste, etc., have access to knowledge and resources they need to adopt improved agricultural practices and thus, secure prosperous livelihoods.","PeriodicalId":504481,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems","volume":"102 36","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140379672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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