Gendered boiled cassava product profile in Benin
Abstract
The WP1 Gendered Food Product Profile for Gari-Eba in Nigeria reflects the final step (<a href="https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00661">step 5</a>) of an interdisciplinary five-step methodology developed to identify demand for quality characteristics among diverse user groups along the food chain (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.14680">Forsythe et al., 2022</a>). This methodology includes: <a href="https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00568">step 1)</a> interdisciplinary state of knowledge of the product ; <a href="https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00569">step 2)</a> gendered food mapping, which includes participatory research with men and women in rural communities regarding their product preferences and priorities; <a href="https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00570">step 3)</a> participatory processing diagnosis and quality characteristics ; and <a href="https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00571">step 4)</a> consumer studies in rural and urban areas of the product using different RTB varieties.