Characteristic	Frequency (n = 15)	Percentage
Gender
Female	10	66.6
Male	5	33.4
Household size
1 to 3	5	33.3
4 to 6	7	46.7
7 to 10	3	20.0
Source of food
Market	7	47.0
Market and farm	8	53.0
Coping strategy
Reduce portions	1	6.7
Skip meals	2	13.3
Borrow from Neighbors	1	6.7
Barter trade	1	6.7
Borrow from other family members	3	20.0
Sale farm animals	1	6.7

Table 1: Socioeconomic Characteristics of Respondents, Chacraseca, 2015

Themes	Focus group Sample Quote
Source of food	“It depends on what you want to eat. Most times we eat rice and beans and these we buy from markets in Leon. Sometimes from our small shops. My husband grows pipian and eggplants but sometimes we buy them too.” “I buy the major foods, like beans, rice and sometimes beef from Leon. I usually send my daughter to buy cooking oil and salt from a shop across the road.” “I grow Pipian in my garden, my older brother grows papayas and mangoes. When I want a papaya, I take to him some Pipian.”
Food access	“There is transport to Leon. In Leon there is everything, eggs, beans, rice, beef, pork, anything you want. The bus is always here, you get on the bus, buy food and get back.” “In Las Lomas, we have to buy a lot of food for about two weeks, especially in the rainy season. You will see how bad the road is when you come to visit.”
Food source preference	“Food is food, whether you grow it, buy it or beg. But it is good to know that you will have food. If you can go to the market, well and good but sometimes it is good to grow your own food. You never know.” “From any source, to me it doesn’t matter.” “I would love to grow my own food so that I can use money for my business to complete constructing my house.”
Affordability	“Rice is cheap, everywhere rice is cheap, 16 Codobas for one pound. It feeds my family of four. Beans too are cheap. I think food is affordable. Especially if you work, life may be different if you don’t work.” “It does not matter whether food is cheap or expensive, I still have to feed my family.”
Food storage	“There’s no need to store food, we can buy from Leon using the bus. Rice and beans and tortilla and cheese. Tortilla you can get it here.” “Rice and beans store well. I have a fridge to store meat and fruits, but the cost of electricity is high, most times my wife turns off the fridge.” “Everyone in my sector has electricity but speaking for myself the bill is expensive when you turn on the fridge even for a few hours.”
Attitude towards group work	“We always work in groups. With mission groups at casa de Paz. Medical missions, music groups. My daughter is in the music group at JustHope, Inc. If we work together as a group, we can solve many issues, not just food issues, health issues and education too.” “I like group work, especially if everyone completes their assigned task.”
Preferred intervention	“Microcredit for women and maybe for men. We need to have our own businesses – to be bosses and create jobs. Our community is agricultural but now we can’t grow food. No rain. Crops can’t grow without rain.” “My son-in-law has a papaya farm. La Colonia buys our papaya’s and it is profitable. Now our whole family is involved in papaya farming and we are becoming famous for that.” “We have many markets but most of the food in these markets is not grown in Chacraseca. I wish we could be able to supply these markets.”

Table 2: Major Themes Derived from Focus Group Discussion, Chacraseca, 2015

Major Themes	Sample Quotes
Most common health conditions	“Most people who come here have respiratory problems. It is due to durst, not anything else. It is not smoking, but it could be to some extent. But women do not smoke, only a few do.” “Patients present with various health condition from diabetes, blood pressure, gout, chikungunya and respiratory problems”
Availability of medicine	“If patients present with flue and cough, we give them the medicine. Even paracetamols. For complicated cases, we just write them prescriptions.” “Some medical missionaries come and treat patients right here. Other missionaries choose to just send us the medicine. other than that, we are sometimes short on medicine.”
Ease of access to health centers	“My patients come here by bus. It drops them right there and they walk. The bus stop is close by.” “We treat patients from the sectors that are close by, others will go to the hospitals next to their sectors.”
Suggestion for improvement of health conditions	“Mission groups are of great help, they bring medicine. Last month a medical team came here, they held a meeting and taught the community how to prevent eye problems and take care of their health.” “We appreciate advice and services aimed at helping our community.” “We work with JustHope, Inc., whenever they bring ideas, we work tirelessly to implement them because this is our community.”

Table 3: Major Themes Derived from Key Informant Interviews

Intervention	Stakeholders (n=25)	Frequency (%)
Credit facilities	22	88.0
Food processing technologies	19	76.0
Gardening	23	92.0
Nutrition mission groups	22	88.0
Expanding medical staff	20	80.0

Table 4: Frequency of Preference for the Various Interventions, Chacraseca, 2015

	Average value (%)
Intervention	A	B	C	D	E	Average %
Credit facilities	80	60	90	30	88	69.6
Food processing	70	20	50	30	76	49.2
Gardening	90	80	90	40	92	78.4
Nutrition missions	90	90	70	90	88	85.6
Expanding medical staff	70	90	40	50	80	66.0

A: Seriousness, B: Urgency, C: Practicability, D: Financial Capacity, and E: Frequency

Table 5: Average Value for Each Intervention Based on Criteria, Chacraseca 2015

	Score (Total value multiplied by criteria weight)
Criteria	F	G	H	I	J	K
Seriousness	9.0	626.4	442.8	705.6	770.4	594.0
Urgency	8.0	556.8	393.6	627.2	684.8	528.0
Practicability	7.0	487.2	344.4	548.8	599.2	462.0
Financial capacity	5.0	348.0	344.4	392.0	428.0	330.0
Frequency	6.5	452.4	319.8	509.6	556.4	429.0
Final score		2470.8	1845.0	2783.2	3038.8	2343.0

F: Criteria, G: Credit Facilities, H: Food Processing, I: Gardening, J: Nutrition Education, and K: Expanding Medical Staff

Table 6: Final Score for Interventions, Chacraseca 2015