Table 1.

Sample description and comparison of agroecological (n = 61) and reference (n = 30) farmers on study variables

	Descriptive measurements	Comparison by farmer category
	Pooled sample	Agroecological	Reference
	mean [SD] or percent	mean [SD] or percent	mean [SD] or percent
Traditional food (TF) practices
TF production diversity (0–11 products)	4.7 [2.5]	5.7 [2.3]***	2.8 [1.9]
TF consumption diversity (0–12 products)	7.5 [2.0]	8.3 [1.7]***	5.9 [1.6]
TF consumption frequency (annual)	221 [182]	260 [193]	144 [129]
median (interquartile range)	164 (82–301)	209 (130–351)***	102 (56–180)
Wild food consumption diversity (products)	7.5 [3.1]	7.7 [3.0]	7.0 [3.2]
Sociodemographics
Age (years)	45 [13]	46 [13]	42 [13]
Monthly income per capita (USD)	92 [89]	87 [81]	100 [105]
median (interquartile range)	67 (37–110)	61 (37–110)	85 (40–109)
Time to market (minutes)	47 [36]	49 [35]	43 [38]
median (interquartile range)	40 (30–60)	38 (30–60)	43 (20–50)
Education completed
None or partial primary	44%	39%	53%
Primary or partial secondary	38%	43%	30%
Secondary or post-secondary	18%	18%	17%
Farm production diversity (products)	39 [16]	45 [15]***	28 [14]
Share of total calories acquired from diverse sources
Conventional markets (0–100%)	52 [27]	44 [23]***	69 [25]
Harvest (0–100%)	27 [24]	32 [24]***	17 [19]
Social economy (0–100%)	20 [24]	23 [24]	13 [23]
median (interquartile range)	12 (0.2–31)	17 (6–34)***	0.3 (0.0–16)

For continuous variables, mean is reported with standard deviation. For variables with non-parametric distributions, median and interquartile range are also reported. Frequency is reported for categorical variables. Share of total calories is based on an agroecological sample size of 60, due to missing information. Difference tested between agroecological and reference farmers with Student’s t-test, Mann-Whitney U-test or Chi-Squared test depending on variable distribution and type. *, ** and *** indicate significance at the 10, 5 and 1% levels, respectively.