RHoMIS and beyond

Mark van Wijk
Mark is senior scientist at ILRI and is currently based in Quito, Ecuador. He has 15 years of experience working on both fundamental and applied research in agro-ecosystems across the world and is co-developer of the RHoMIS tool.

​Our RHoMIS work has led to a unique harmonised database of quantitative information on smallholder livelihoods in low and middle income countries (now containing interviews of more than 28,000 households in 31 countries). We are now in full force analysing these data to identify pathways towards food security, and underpin strategic studies trying to identify the drivers of diverse diets and possible trade offs between agricultural production intensification and key welfare indicators like gender equity.

What is less known is that our RHoMIS research actually originated from work focusing on bringing together existing household survey data from a wide range of projects and using those data to identify common indicators of food security, and farm livelihood characteristics determining food security. 

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