Webinar: RHoMIS

Date: Thursday, 23 November 2017, 3:00PM Central European Time

Duration: 60 min

Presenter: Mark van Wijk - Senior Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), based in Quito, Ecuador. His research focuses on analyzing the drivers of food security in smallholder farming systems in developing countries, trying to harvest from the added value of combining modeling, experimental, participatory and statistical approaches. He has over 95 papers in peer-reviewed, international journals. To learn more about Mark’s work and publications, you can check his profile on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Content: In this webinar, Mark presented recent work on the Rural Household Multiple Indicator Survey (RHoMIS). RHoMIS was developed to efficiently collect a series of harmonized and standardized performance indicators at farm household level, specifically targeting smallholder farmers in developing countries. A specific focus is to create a common database that quantatively links agricultural management and production to food security, poverty and diets. The RHoMIS team is especially interested in how factors at farm household level and at regional level shape these relationships. This work started as a small-scale collaboration between scientists of the international Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), but has expanded to a larger community of scientists and other people working in agricultural development, with data now collected in more than 50 sites in 16 different countries. Mark presented the philosophy and approach behind the tool, some of the analyses they have performed with the data collected over the last two years, and plans for future work. More information on RHoMIS can be found at http://rhomis.net.

An Overview of RHoMIS webinar 23 Nov 2017 — video recording