Dialogue as a tool of nutrition literacy in an agricultural intervention programme in Odisha, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An ongoing action research nutrition literacy programme based on Freire's approach of raising critical consciousness through the use of dialogue as a pedagogic tool is being implemented as part of a nutrition sensitive agricultural intervention in tribal Odisha. One hundred and eight adults, referred to as Community Hunger Fighters (CHFs) underwent two modules of a residential training programme of two and a half days each, spread over two months. Through discussion they explored the reasons behind the lack of diversity in their daily diets and identified the social, economic and cultural barriers to food intake in the context of their own poverty. They undertook collective exercises in nutrition sensitive agricultural planning. The transformative behaviour of the CHFs w

SUBMITTER: Narayanan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9088138 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature