Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method

Crop trait and varietal preferences are socially shaped, varying by gender, experience, and on-farm roles. This drives preference heterogeneity, between households but also within households. Adhering to the common practice of only interviewing the household head as a representative of households, l...

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Autores principales: Mukerjee, Rishabh, Fatou Faye, Ndeye, Badji, Malamine J., Gomez, Miguel, Rubin, Deborah, Tufan, Hale Ann, Occelli, Martina
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Frontiers Media 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138618
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author Mukerjee, Rishabh
Fatou Faye, Ndeye
Badji, Malamine J.
Gomez, Miguel
Rubin, Deborah
Tufan, Hale Ann
Occelli, Martina
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Fatou Faye, Ndeye
Gomez, Miguel
Mukerjee, Rishabh
Occelli, Martina
Rubin, Deborah
Tufan, Hale Ann
author_facet Mukerjee, Rishabh
Fatou Faye, Ndeye
Badji, Malamine J.
Gomez, Miguel
Rubin, Deborah
Tufan, Hale Ann
Occelli, Martina
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description Crop trait and varietal preferences are socially shaped, varying by gender, experience, and on-farm roles. This drives preference heterogeneity, between households but also within households. Adhering to the common practice of only interviewing the household head as a representative of households, leads to breeding programs collecting trait preferences that do not represent the experiences of other members within that household. This dearth of data on trait preferences of multiple household members could be hindered by the lack of robust and agile methods to collect this data. Here we present a method that explores intra-household differences between husbands and wives in trait preferences through choice experimentation, coupled with questions that capture decision-making, experience and time spent on farm to explore how these drive preferences. Dissecting crop management into three dimensions, we explore what drives intra-household heterogeneity in varietal preferences between husbands and wives, as well as, decision-making, crop experience and time spent working on the crop. We present preliminary results from testing this combined protocol with 270 cowpea growing households (540 respondents) in Senegal. The findings from this work hold promise to inform crop breeding programs on the value of intra-household analysis for trait priority setting, while offering a new method which is applicable by National Agricultural Research Organizations globally.
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spelling CGSpace1386182025-12-08T10:29:22Z Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method Mukerjee, Rishabh Fatou Faye, Ndeye Badji, Malamine J. Gomez, Miguel Rubin, Deborah Tufan, Hale Ann Occelli, Martina gender plant breeding trait preferences Crop trait and varietal preferences are socially shaped, varying by gender, experience, and on-farm roles. This drives preference heterogeneity, between households but also within households. Adhering to the common practice of only interviewing the household head as a representative of households, leads to breeding programs collecting trait preferences that do not represent the experiences of other members within that household. This dearth of data on trait preferences of multiple household members could be hindered by the lack of robust and agile methods to collect this data. Here we present a method that explores intra-household differences between husbands and wives in trait preferences through choice experimentation, coupled with questions that capture decision-making, experience and time spent on farm to explore how these drive preferences. Dissecting crop management into three dimensions, we explore what drives intra-household heterogeneity in varietal preferences between husbands and wives, as well as, decision-making, crop experience and time spent working on the crop. We present preliminary results from testing this combined protocol with 270 cowpea growing households (540 respondents) in Senegal. The findings from this work hold promise to inform crop breeding programs on the value of intra-household analysis for trait priority setting, while offering a new method which is applicable by National Agricultural Research Organizations globally. 2023-11-28 2024-01-26T15:20:51Z 2024-01-26T15:20:51Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138618 en Open Access Frontiers Media Mukerjee R, Faye NF, Badji MJ, Gomez M, Rubin D, Tufan HA and Occelli M (2023) Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1257076. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1257076
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plant breeding
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Mukerjee, Rishabh
Fatou Faye, Ndeye
Badji, Malamine J.
Gomez, Miguel
Rubin, Deborah
Tufan, Hale Ann
Occelli, Martina
Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method
title Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method
title_full Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method
title_fullStr Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method
title_full_unstemmed Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method
title_short Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method
title_sort intra household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences a new method
topic gender
plant breeding
trait preferences
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138618
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