Food Consumption Patterns Part 2

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Annex 2: Proposal
Proposal for Baseline Study of RUFs in Haiti
Submitted Tuesday, June 15, 2014
Timothy T. Schwartz, PhD
timotuck@gmail.com
Summary
1) Review of the literature from academic and NGO sources
2) Interviews at government agencies to collect food related data on laws, regulations and
standards
3) Key informant interviews with members of the business community and researchers with
special knowledge and experience in the area of Haitian nutrition
4) Value chain investigations: specifically into local snack foods, street foods and peanuts
5) Focus groups: total of 33 focusing on nutrition, food consumption, and child feeding practices
6) Frequency List (also referred to as “freelisting”) surveys: 50 lists obtained in association with
focus groups. Focused on ranking of most nutritional foods and snack foods.
7) Qualitative Cultural Consensus Analysis: 49 interviewed in depth using pile sorts (to develop
food categorization profiles/cognitive domains regarding food categories).
8) Quantitative survey on consumption patterns: 128 surveys conducted in association with focus
groups
9) Vendor survey: open interviews with 30 vendors concerning attitudes toward new products,
disposition to purchase, credit arrangements, distribution
10) Boutik surveys: total of 56 boutiks at
11) Boutik Inventories
12) Distributors
13) Redistributors.
14) Quantitative Consumer Survey: 628 respondent survey focusing on snack preferences, prices,
frequency and timing of purchases, attitudes toward local vs. imported foods,
Deliverables
Report that includes: import duties and laws pertaining to nutrition, phytosanitary restrictions,
labeling and packaging. A diagram of ranked distribution mechanisms and map of market chains
and distribution channels and profits at each step in the value chain, market size estimations,
demand, and pricing points. Estimation of wholesale and retail outlets per area and population.
Profile of local food categories, nutritional perspectives and preferences. understanding significant
of fortification, recommendations of how and where the product should be sold, and how to get
the product from importation to the end user. Understanding of storage, transport, and
infrastructure
Materials and programs
The Cultural Consensus Analysis program Analytic Technologies Anthropac; Quantitative
surveys will be conducted with Samsung Tablets programmed in ODK Format with data processed
on Columbia University’s Formhub site.