Participatory evaluation of food and nutritional security through sustainability indicators in a highland peasant system in Guatemala

Arnés, Esperanza; Astier, Marta; González, Omar; Díaz‐Ambrona, Carlos Gregorio Hernández

doi:10.1080/21683565.2018.1510871

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“…Local measurements of sustainability have recently proven to be an important part of sustainability assessments for researchers and practitioners (eg. Winther, 2016;Arnes et al 2018). Their significance lies on two main issues: a) they can facilitate decisionmakers to plan public policies tailored to tackle specific local challenges by incorporating perceptions of local stakeholders (Wiek and Binder 2005;La Rovere et al 2010;O'Faircheallaigh 2010;Vilei 2011).…”

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Exploring the role of local community perceptions in sustainability measurements

Jones

Malesios

Aloupi

et al. 2019

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Measuring sustainability is an integral part of decision-making processes in order to promote sustainable development. The present paper focuses on sustainability indicators as these are measured on local level and explores two main issues: firstly, the subjective measurement of indicators focusing especially on social dimensions of sustainability, secondly, the incorporation of local perceptions in sustainability assessments. These two issues are explored in the Asopos River basin in Greece, an area where significant environmental degradation has been observed in the past decades and is also under financial pressure due to the ongoing national recession. A large-scale research study was conducted measuring environmental, economic and social indicators while, at a second stage, a model was developed, estimating new indicators that incorporate local communities' perceptions on what they considered as important for their area. The results of the study reveal that the most important indicators for the sustainable development of the area, according to locals' perceptions, are environmental quality as well as quality of life. By contrast, trust in local and central institutions and also local enterprises were not considered as important by locals. These results illustrate the importance of combining global and national scale assessment with locally focused social measurements of sustainability in order to better understand what is important for local communities prior to embarking on public policy planning.

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Exploring the role of local community perceptions in sustainability measurements

Jones

Malesios

Aloupi

et al. 2019

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…Systemic approaches have been used for ex ante and ex post impact assessment in agriculture-nutrition projects showing promising results linking sustainability (or sustainable development) and FNS [41,139,140]. These studies used participatory processes to evaluate and compare intervention outcomes.…”

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Sustainability in home garden interventions to improve food security: Results, challenges, and future directions

Hernández-Aguilar¹,

Dominguez-Hernandez

2022

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Food and nutrition security (FNS) is a priority for human development since different facets of malnutrition still prevail in many parts of the world. Home garden interventions (HGI) have been proposed to improve FNS, generally obtaining positive results. This review aimed to evaluate reports of HGI, discussing their characteristics and outcomes in terms of three sustainability dimensions (social, environmental, and economic). A total of 40 papers (n-number of papers) were included, mainly published since 2009. According to literature review, measurement, or discussion of economic (productivity, n=20) and social (diet improvement, n=33) outcomes has taken precedence over environmental ones (agrodiversity, n=15) in HGI’s impact assessment (IA). Furthermore, sustainability has not been assessed beyond the continuity of the proposed changes (n=5). Future HGI should apply Systemic-Transdisciplinary approaches with adequate metrics and multidimensional IA methodologies linking FNS and sustainable development. This would allow a contextualisation of the research, establishing the current situation of the study system and identifying precise needs. Also, it would be possible to identify and monitor trade-offs and synergies of the intervention. Such approach would generate a strong body of scientific evidence and awareness of the benefits of a sustainable agricultural system in the prevention and treatment of the double burden of malnutrition (hidden hunger and overweight/obesity).

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“…4. On homogeneity: (Khoury et al 2014); on indigenous peoples' nutritional health: (Damman, Eide, and Kuhnlein 2008;Altieri and Toledo 2011;Esparza-Romero et al 2015;Rocha, Silva, and Nascimento 2016;Arnés et al 2019; FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO 2019). 5.…”

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Changes in food consumption in an indigenous community in southern Belize, 1979-2019

Cleary

Mercer

Usher³

et al. 2021

Food, Culture & Society

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Participatory evaluation of food and nutritional security through sustainability indicators in a highland peasant system in Guatemala

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Exploring the role of local community perceptions in sustainability measurements

Exploring the role of local community perceptions in sustainability measurements

Sustainability in home garden interventions to improve food security: Results, challenges, and future directions

Changes in food consumption in an indigenous community in southern Belize, 1979-2019

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