IW World Cafe Discussion
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Fead Assessment Tool (FEAST)
- FEAST needs to be part of an overall process
- FEAST can play an important role in engaging the actors in that process
- FEAST can be a useful tool, not just for the technical aspects but for engaging actors and is //part of a process
- How dynamic is the situation?
How Useful is FEAST?
- Systematic approach (linked to Techfit)
- Capture past and future trends
- Capture local knowledge
- Broad scope - livelihood components / livestock context + Business
- Location specificity
- Define scale
- PRA & Structured Questions
- Engaging different actors and policy makers!
How would you use it?
- Systems analysis
- Beginning of project design
- Checklist design and identify key informants
- Educational/capacity-building instiutions
Who and Where?
- Project development, e.g. NGOs, development agencies
- Ext. Res.
- Private Sector
- Policy-makers
Value Chain Analysis (VCA)
- Issues raised:
- How can the results reach the farmers?
- Quantification issue – prioritizing the interventions should depend on the initial objective of conducting VCA
Is VCA useful?
- Fast method, suits for other similar studies too
- It is useful in that hidden problems which may not be identified by other tools could also be identified so that it simplifies to give suitable solution
- It allows participation of all actors of the chain
Disadvantages
- It tends to depend on the involvement of those actors/their knowledge & experience in the value to come up with the real problems and solutions.
- The importance of VCA in identifying which feed component more prevalent in the market
- How to see the role of outsiders
- VCA - have people of different specializations - this helps to get different ideas
- Problem of quantification
- Problem of prioritizing interventions
Techfit
- Helped clarify what the tool is about.
- How are farmers involved in this process and to what extent does it involve farmers in decision making?
- Useful because it brings farmers and local experts together to present some option which can then be tested.
- Techfit is not a magic bullet.
AG-TECHFIT: FEED/CROPS/WATER/SOIL/BREED
- Soft
- Biophysical assessment important for forages
- What is your problem vs. what do you have? - need to be asset-based
- Magic bullet vs. basket of options
- Do analysis with farmers
- Sequencing - which order?
- Involvement of farmers? Testing can be done on the spot.
- Is it dynamic?
- Bringing together farmer & expert knowledge
- Scale? How does it fit with Government packages?