TAFSSA District Agrifood Systems Assessment in India 2023: Market Survey

TAFSSA (Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia) is a CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative aimed at advancing equitable access to sustainable healthy diets, enhancing farmers' livelihoods and resilience, and conserving natural resources such as land, air, and water across South Asia. The TAFSSA district agrifood systems assessment seeks to establish a robust, accessible, and integrated evidence base that connects farm production, market access, dietary patterns, climate risk responses, and natural resource management, with gender considerations integrated throughout. The assessment focuses on rural areas in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, utilizing a district-level, multi-year approach.</p>
Data collection took place between February and June 2023 in the Nalanda district of Bihar, India. The survey covered 50 villages in the district, focusing on formal and informal multi-vendor markets offering various food products within a 10-kilometer radius of the village centroid. The types of multi-vendor markets included village markets, weekly village markets, roadside/street markets, and wholesale markets (mandis).</p>

The survey employed pretested, structured questionnaires divided into three distinct modules:</p>

1. Interview-Based Module: Collected data on vendor information, assortments of essential goods, availability, resilience, food sourcing, food wastage, and dimensions of access and protection.</p>
2. Observation + Photo Module: Documented market information, infrastructure, and the quality, safety, and hygiene of the market.</p>
3. Food List Module: Recorded the availability and prices of a comprehensive list of food items found at the location.

TAFSSA（南亚农业食品系统转型，Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia）是国际农业研究磋商组织（CGIAR）发起的区域综合倡议，旨在推动南亚地区可持续健康膳食的公平可及，提升农户生计水平与抗风险韧性，并保护土地、空气、水等自然资源。TAFSSA区级农业食品系统评估旨在构建一套严谨、可及且整合完善的证据基础，将农业生产、市场准入、膳食结构、气候风险应对与自然资源管理等环节有机串联，并全程融入性别视角考量。本次评估聚焦孟加拉国、印度与尼泊尔的农村地区，采用区级尺度、多年期的研究方法。

数据采集工作于2023年2月至6月间在印度比哈尔邦那烂陀县开展。本次调查覆盖该县50个村庄，重点关注村庄几何中心半径10公里范围内、提供各类食品的正式与非正式多商户市场，市场类型涵盖村级集市、村级周集、路边/街头集市以及批发市场（mandis）。

本次调研采用经过预测试的结构化问卷，分为三个独立模块：
1. 访谈模块：采集商户基本信息、必需品品类组合、供应状况、韧性水平、食品采购渠道、食品浪费情况，以及准入与保障相关维度的数据。
2. 观察与摄影模块：记录市场基本信息、基础设施状况，以及市场的品质、安全与卫生水平。
3. 食品清单模块：记录调研点位在售全品类食品的供应情况与售价。