Rapid participatory system mapping builds agri-food system resilience: evidence from Nigeria

Fanen  Terdoo; G. Feola

doi:10.1080/19376812.2020.1761410

Rapid participatory system mapping builds agri-food system resilience: evidence from Nigeria

Fanen Terdoo^*, G. Feola

^*Corresponding author for this work

Federal University Dutsin-Ma

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Abstract

Participatory methods can be used to build food system resilience. However, it is widely acknowledged that these methods are usually highly time and resource consuming, which reduces their applicability. This study developed a novel rapid participatory system mapping method to elicit system conceptualizations from distinct value chain actors. This study also tested the method in a case study of rice value chains in Benue State, Nigeria. Participant evaluations of the rapid participatory system mapping method provide evidence of this method’s potential to contribute to resilience building by facilitating social learning, informing better decision making, and promoting community problem solving. These contributions especially strengthen the two resilience factors of social self-organization and reflective and shared learning. This novel rapid participatory system mapping method can be used in the future as a self-standing research approach, or to complement other participatory methods of food system resilience building.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	63-75
Number of pages	13
Journal	African Geographical Review
Volume	40
Issue number	1
Early online date	14 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2020.1761410
Publication status	Published - 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was conducted when both authors were based at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading (United Kingdom). The authors are grateful to Geoff Griffiths for his advice on study design. The first author is thankful to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State, Nigeria, for funding his PhD training at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading (scholarship number: FUDMA/REG/PS 059/1/91).

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© 2020 The African Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

Keywords

System dynamics
soft systems methodology
rapid rural appraisal
Africa

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