Publication year:
1993
The paper follows up a workshop on household data collection for food policy needs. It provides an introduction to the use of R/PRA and its recent development, as well as comparing RRA and PRA, and looking at specific food policy applications. Examples of mapping, diagramming and ranking for food policy are given. The key issues identified are the increasing use of visual techniques, with the associated shift in control and increased participation, and the recognition of the role of qualitative, not quantitative, data in policy. Cost efficiency and speed are high, although a number of constraints are identified, namely the problems of jumping on the "bandwagon", and naming what remain essentially extractive excercises, "PRA".
Interest groups:
Interesting to those at community, district and regional level involved with planning and policy
In:
Data Needs for Food Policy in Developing CountriesL New Directions for Household Surveys
Editor:
von Braun and Puetz
Publisher reference:
International Food Policy Research Institute