This post describes the research questions, challenges and problem statement as well as offers insight into our view on scoping the project before we went to the field.
Scoping
Research
Mission & vision
This post describes the mission and vision of our project and opens up our view on themes of focus before going in the field.
Aflatoxins
This post describes some key insights about aflatoxins and mycotoxins. It also explores food safety issues, key stakeholders and supply chain as well as the local food safety ecosystem in Kenya.
Approach, tools and methods
This post describes our approach and process for addressing the issue of food safety and aflatoxins. It consists of three parts: Wicked Problems What are they? Design Thinking Why ? What? How? Systems Thinking Why ? What? How?
Benchmarking
This post showcases some of the existing solutions to food safety issues from all over the world. Some examples of the benchmarked solutions are: Gardening walls in urban communities, co-ops and home deliveries, small scale and large scale hydroponic gardens, utilising sensors and satellites, membership business models for e.g. buying seeds and fertiliser, using great…
What did we do in the research process?
Process in brief: Secondary research (reading & benchmarking solutions) Expert interviews (Via Skype & in person in Finland) Client meetings Visualising and discussing our findings Validation workshops/discussions with clients, mentors & experts Context: Our IDBM project team of five people from different disciplines had a matching multidisciplinary team of students based in the University of…