Full Title

Innovative technologies for data collection in agri-nutrition research: Opportunities and challenges

Session Overview

Agriculture projects can have positive or negative impacts on maternal and infant well-being, depending on consequences on women’s workload and time for childcare, leisure activities and personal care, and on the accessibility, affordability and utilisation of nutritious foods. Existing time use and dietary assessment tools are generally either resource intensive (direct observation) or subject to error and bias (mother recall). The session introduces 2 innovative time use and dietary assessment tools: (1) Image-Assisted Recall (IAR) using Life-logging GPS-linked wearable cameras (2) Computerised Interactive Voice Response Diaries (IVR). We discuss the experience of trialling the tools with rural women in Eastern Uganda.

Learning Objectives/Outcomes

Participants will:
1. Understand the purpose and uses of 2 innovative time use and dietary assessment tools
2. Gain a basic understanding of the innovative tools
3. Understand some of the opportunities and challenges in using the tools in low- and middle-income contexts

Target Audience

Nutrition/gender/agriculture researchers

Format

Lecture, discussion

Level & Prerequisites

Basic