Home gardens have been an integral part of the recent food‐based interventions aimed at stimulating changes in dietary patterns and improving nutrition. However, evidence of their effects on food security, dietary quality, child anthropometry and incomes is limited, particularly among vulnerable populations groups. Using panel data from a sample of approximately 1900 households from vulnerable population groups in Odisha, India, difference‐in‐differences and other econometric techniques, we analyse the effects of home gardens on food security, dietary quality, child anthropometry and income. On average, home gardens contribute to better household food security, higher dietary quality of men and women but do not contribute to higher children's dietary quality and anthropometry. Also, home gardens increase monthly per adult equivalent incomes by 37% and reduce the prevalence of poverty by 11.7 percentage points. Quantile regression results suggest that home gardens enhance food security and incomes in all quantiles, but richer farmers benefit more than poorer farmers. Overall, home gardens can enhance household food security, dietary quality of men and women, and income gains among vulnerable farming population groups, but they may not suffice to improve child dietary quality and anthropometry.

Background: Gender-based violence (GBV) is a public health problem worldwide. Nonetheless, in rural areas and low-income countries, the problem may be more difficult to eradicate because there are stereotypes that reinforce negative attitudes toward women, which increase the severity of the problem. Goal: This article presents the development of “Tsiunas,” a videogame designed to increase GBV awareness. By implementing game situations that represent attitudes and beliefs that justify unequal and violent relationships between men and women, this videogame attempts to transform attitudes and thoughts entrenched in a patriarchal society model. Results: Tsiunas was evaluated in two phases to: (1) validate the usability and stability of the game and (2) validate the potential change in students' perception regarding GBV situations and recognition of co-responsible masculinities. Both evaluations were carried out through surveys. The results showed that students had a high level of acceptance and appropriation of the content and message of the videogame. Conclusions: The findings allowed to conclude that the game situations presented in Tsiunas influenced changes of opinion in men and women regarding entrenched beliefs about patriarchal patterns, tolerance levels of violence against women, and attitudes toward violence against women. Likewise, the videogame supported the recognition of co-responsible masculinities.

SUMMARY: Biofortified staple crops, amongst them cassava, are being developed to reduce problems of micronutrient malnutrition. In 2006 new cassava varieties with increased levels of provitamin A were released. For the purpose of enhancing adoption of the new cassava varieties, two strategies were used: (1) a participatory research approach and (2) public awareness raising activities. This paper attempts to evaluate the results of these two diffusion strategies. Within the first strategy, the factors found to enhance adoption rates were: awareness of the new varieties' advantages, public entities as the main information sources and involvement in participatory research. Within the second strategy, trends were found between adoption rates and producer characteristics including: ownership of land, middle-level income, advanced education level and use of information media, namely the Internet. In both strategies, a lack of seeds was one of the main factors limiting the adoption process.

This article presents the SmartFC mobile application, an application aimed at students which allows the implementation of the flipped classroom model compatible with the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) even in conditions of low or no connectivity. This proposal not only allows the visualization of open educational resources but also capturing the record of the effort made by students during the development of an academic activity, which represents a significant advantage over the majority of applications used to deliver thematic content. Besides, this application allows two-way communication between students and teachers.