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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Understanding the Impact of Traditional Knowledge and Social Structures on Local Resources Management: the Case of Critical Food Security Situation in Morogoro and Dodoma,tanzania\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Michelle Bonatti, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Str. 86 , 15374~Müncheberg, Germany, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{michebonatti@gmail.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Michelle Bonatti$^{1}$, Constance Reif$^{2}$, Stefan Sieber$^{3}$, Nyamizi Bundala$^{4}$, Kalunde H. A.  Kissawike$^{5}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Inst. of Socio-Economics, Germany}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{3}$Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Inst. of Socio-Economics, Germany}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{4}$Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{5}$Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania}}}
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Food and nutrition security is still one of the most pressing challenges to constantly growing populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, the share of the population with insufficient available calories for consumption was found to be higher than \mbox{20\,\%} and stunting prevalence of \mbox{40\,\%} in children $<$5 years are reported. To improve the nutritional status of Tanzania's local poor, the Scale-N project aims to safeguard food and nutrition security by supporting the development of diversified and sustainable agriculture. Human perception and social structure are radically affected by the availability and amount of food. The Scale-N project aims to assess the following research questions: a) Which role plays traditional knowledge and social structure in critical food security situation? b) What are the driving forces for food adoption strategies of the local population in food insecure situations?



The participative methodology was designed to improve collective knowledge about critical food security and local resources management. Four methodological stages were developed to asses interlinkages between traditional knowledge and social structures on the perception of food insecurity: a) Exploratory expeditions; b) Participant observation (parallel to a, b and d), c) Household survey focusing on problem understandings and food perceptions and d) Focus groups. The research is been carrying out in four case study villages in semi"=arid and sub"=humid Tanzania (Morogoro and Dodoma regions). In total 4,000 households will be involved in the project activities. The stages a) and b) were already applied. 



Their firsts results shows that despite the influence of biophysical environmental conditions (i.e., drought, lack of infrastructure) the patrons of sociocultural structure plays a fundamental role in critical food security situations (scoping  strategies for adaptation, routine of child feeding, gender patrons of food sharing). The next steps (c and d) will be carried out to generate in"=depth information about local knowledge to understand the driving forces for food adaptation strategies of the local population in food insecurity. 



Beside gaining baseline information for the intended project, the findings targeting to inform the national policy planning sectors of food security to develop livelihood diversification strategies and educational tools.



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Food sensitive, nutritional security, rural development
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