Location: West Bengal and Odisha States, Eastern India
PI and Co-I’s: Matty Demont, Rosa Paula Cuevas, Arindam Samaddar, Marie Claire Custodio, & Suva Mohanty
Description: This project sought to understand the personal and external drivers of food choice among urban and rural households in West Bengal and Odisha using a novel tablet-based application.
Funding Round: 1
Behavioral Drivers of Food Choice in Eastern India
Title: Drivers of demand for animal-source foods in low-income informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
PI and Co-I’s: Paula Dominguez-Salas, Aurelia Lepine, Suneetha Kadiyala, & Salome Bukachi
Description: This project used a gender-sensitive approach to investigate demand and supply side factors and drivers of food choice for animal-sourced products in urban informal settlements.
Funding Round: 2
Drivers of demand for animal-source foods
Title: Incentivizing fruit and vegetable consumption in urbanizing India
Location: Telangana State, India
PI and Co-I’s: Sanjay Kinra, Bharati Kulkarni, Eric Finkelstein, Nanda Kishore Kannuri, Sarang Deo, Helen Walls, Anura Kurpad, & Shilpa Aggarwal
Description: This study sought to understand ways to incentivize fruit and vegetable consumption among rural households via developing and testing an innovative market intervention in partnership with local vendors.
Funding Round: 2
Incentivizing fruit and vegetable consumption
School and home gardens
Title: Nudging children toward healthier food choices: An experiment combining school and home gardens
Location: Sindhupalchowk District, Nepal
PI and Co-I’s: Pepijn Schreinemachers, Ray-yu Yang, Dhruba Raj Bhattarai, Puspa Lal Ghimire, Tilman Bruck, & Ghassan Baliki
Description: This study tested the hypothesis that school garden programs can nudge school-aged children (8-12 years old) in Nepal toward healthier diets if various cultural and economic barriers are addressed.
Funding Round: 2
Title: Influence of land impermanence on conservation and utilization of agrobiodiversity and subsequent effect on food attitudes and consumption patterns
Location: Acholi and Teso Regions, Uganda
PI and Co-I’s: Ian Dolan, Beatrice Ekesa-Onyango, Eldad Karamura, Gaston A. Tumuhimbise, & Deborah Karamura
Description: This project examined the influence of land impermanence syndrome on conservation and utilization of agro-biodiversity and subsequent effects on food attitudes, choices and consumption patterns among formerly displaced peoples.
Funding Round: 1
Land Impermanence and Consumption Patterns
Dynamic relationships between mothers and food environments
Title: Understanding how dynamic relationships among maternal agency, maternal workload and the food environment affect food choices
Location: Eastern Region, Uganda
PI and Co-I’s: Kate Wellard, Elaine Ferguson, Joweria Nambooze, Jan Priebe, Pamela Katic, Lora Forsythe, Luigi Palla, James Murangira, Andrea Spray, & Gwen Varley
Description: This study sought to understand contextual factors in the food environment, such as time use and gender empowerment, that affect food choices, particularly among female agricultural laborers in rural Uganda.
Funding Round: 2
Title: Prospecting for Nutrition? How Natural Resource Extraction Impacts Food Choices in Marginalized Communities
Location: Kankan Region, Guinea
PI and Co-I’s: Rolf D.W. Klemm, Peter J. Winch, Stella Nordhagen, Sadio Diallo, & Alpha Oumar Barry
Description: This project examined drivers of food choice among those residing in the artisanal mining communities of northern Guinea, where there is both immense wealth and widespread health and nutritional disparities.
Funding Round: 2
Natural Resource Extraction and Food Choices in Marginalized Communities
Title: Food Choice in Indian Households in the Context of the Nutrition Transition
Location: Vijayapura, India
PI and Co-I’s: Solveig A. Cunningham, Ashlesha Datar, & Shailaja S. Patil
Description: This study examined drivers of food choice, consumer food preferences, and the role of the public distribution system (PDS) among men and women in Vijayapura, a region that is in an early stage of globalization.
Funding Round: 2
Food Choice and Nutrition Transitions
Title: Diet, Environment, and Choices of positive living (DECIDE study): Evaluating personal and external food environment influences on diets among PLHIV and families in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
PI and Co-I’s: Ramya Ambikapathi, Wafaie Fawzi, Japhet Killewo, Crystal L. Patil, Mary Mwanyika Sando, Aloisia Shemdoe, & Nilupa Gunaratna
Description: This project sought to understand and characterize the food environment, drivers of food choice, and dietary adequacy among families living with HIV.
Funding Round: 2
Diet, Environment, and Choices of positive living
Title: Retail diversity for dietary diversity. Preventing nutrition deserts for the urban poor within the transforming food retail environment in Vietnam
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
PI and Co-I’s: Sigrid Wertheim-Heck, Gina Kennedy, Peter Oosterveer, Jessica Raneri, Ha Thi Lan Anh, Marion Klaver, & Ha Thanh Dat
Description: This study sought to understand the interactions between urban lower-income women and their retail food environments in terms of nutrition security and dietary quality and diversity.
Funding Round: 1
Retail diversity for dietary diversity in Vietnam
Location: Central and Southern Malawi
PI and Co-I’s: Helen Walls, Deborah Johnston, Richard Smith, Ephraim Chirwa, & Tayamika Kamwanja
Description: This project sought to understand the influence of Malawi’s Agricultural Input Subsidy (AIS) program, which is primarily used to bolster production of the staple grain maize, on consumer food preferences and tradeoffs by price, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Funding Round: 1
Do agricultural input subsidies on staples reduce dietary diversity?
Title: From Growing Food to Growing Cash: Understanding the Drivers of Food Choice in the Context of Rapid Agrarian Change in Indonesia
Location: West Kalimantan and Papua Districts, Indonesia
PI and Co-I’s: Amy Ickowitz, Bronwen Powell, Ratna Purwestri, Nia Novita, Edy Waliyo, & Maxianus K. Raya
Description: This project investigated the impacts on diets of mothers and children in rural areas experiencing livelihood transitions from traditional to commercial agrarianism.
Funding Round: 1
From Growing Food to Growing Cash
Title: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the social and physical food environments that drive consumption of energy dense nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods and beverages, to identify interventions targeting women and adolescent girls throughout the reproductive life course
Location: Accra and Ho, Ghana
PI and Co-I’s: Michelle Holdsworth, Amos Laar, Francis Zotor, Robert Akparibo, Paula Griffiths, Mark Green, Nicolas Bricas, & Kobby Mensah
Description: This study examined features within social and physical food environments in two Ghanaian urban cities that motivate consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor (EDNP) foods and beverages by women and adolescent girls.
Funding Round: 1
Dietary transitions and Consumption
Location: Lilongwe and Kasungu Districts, Malawi
PI and Co-I’s: Valerie Flax, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Lindsey Jaacks, & Mary Muth
Description: This study sought to identify and explain cognitive, cultural, economic, gender, and seasonal predictors of dietary intake and food choice among Malawian mother-child dyads containing an overweight mother, child (6 months-5 years), or both.
Funding Round: 1
Drivers of Food Choice in the Context of Overweight among Women and Children in Malawi
Title: Understanding the Drivers of Diet Change and Food Choice among Tanzanian Pastoralists to Inform Policy and Practice
Location: Handeni and Mvomero Districts, Tanzania
PI and Co-I’s: Amy Webb Girard, Peter Little, Kathryn Yount, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Joyce Kinabo, & Akwilina Mwanri
Description: This project aimed to explain how rising sedentarization among pastoralists, a result of increasing environmental, social, and political pressures, impacts sociocultural and gender norms, food access and valuation, and ultimately, food choice.
Funding Round: 1
Food Choice among Tanzanian Pastoralists