Integrating the soybean‑maize‑chicken value chains to attain nutritious diets in Tanzania

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationTanzania Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.crpGrain Legumes
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierFrederick Baijukya: 0000-0003-2586-2013
cg.creator.identifierKen E Giller: 0000-0002-5998-4652
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-021-01213-4en
cg.identifier.iitathemeNATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1876-4517en
cg.issue6en
cg.journalFood Securityen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaAGRONOMYen
cg.subject.iitaFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.iitaGRAIN LEGUMESen
cg.subject.iitaMAIZEen
cg.subject.iitaNUTRITIONen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT BREEDINGen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.iitaSOYBEANen
cg.subject.iitaVALUE CHAINSen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.volume13en
dc.contributor.authorWilson, W.C.en
dc.contributor.authorSlingerland, Majaen
dc.contributor.authorBaijukya, F.en
dc.contributor.authorZanten, H. vanen
dc.contributor.authorOosting, S.J.en
dc.contributor.authorGiller, Kenneth E.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-22T15:16:49Zen
dc.date.available2021-09-22T15:16:49Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115108
dc.titleIntegrating the soybean‑maize‑chicken value chains to attain nutritious diets in Tanzaniaen
dcterms.abstractIn Tanzania, diets are dominated by starchy staple crops such as maize, levels of malnutrition are high and largely attributed to lack of dietary diversity. We employed fuzzy cognitive mapping to understand the current soybean, maize and chicken value chains, to highlight stakeholder relationships and to identify entry points for value chain integration to support nutritious diets in Tanzania. The fuzzy cognitive maps were constructed based on information gathered during household interviews with 569 farming households, followed by a participatory workshop with 54 stakeholders involved in the three value chains. We found that the soybean, maize and chicken value chains were interconnected, particularly at the level of the smallholder farming systems and at processing facilities. Smallholder farming households were part of one or more value chains. Chicken feed is an important entry point for integrating the three value chains, as maize and soybean meal are the main sources of energy and protein for chicken. Unlike maize, the utilization of soybean in chicken feed is limited, mainly due to inadequate quality of processing of soybean grain into meal. As a result, the soybean grain produced by smallholders is mainly exported to neighbouring countries for further processing, and soybean meal is imported at relatively high prices. Enhancing local sourcing and adequate processing of soybean, coupled with strengthening the integration of smallholder farmers with other soybean, maize and chicken value chain actors offers an important opportunity to improve access to nutritious diets for local people. Our method revealed the importance of interlinkages that integrate the value chains into a network within domestic markets.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2021-09-09
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWilson, W.C., Slingerland, M., Baijukya, F., van Zanten, H., Oosting, S.J. & Giller, K. (2021). Integrating the soybean-maize-chicken value chains to attain nutritious diets in Tanzania. Food Security, 1-18.en
dcterms.extentp. 1595-1612en
dcterms.issued2021-12
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectsoybeansen
dcterms.subjectmaizeen
dcterms.subjectfeedsen
dcterms.subjectvalue chainsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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