Revisions needed to FEAST to provide info for Techfit

Alan DuncanTechfit Development Meeting May 23-24 2013

Data we need to derive from FEAST to feed into Techfit

Main constraint– Seasonality– Quantity– Quality

Dominant commodity– Beef– Dairy– Sheep/Goats– Pigs/poultry

Farming system– Pastoral– Agro-pastoral/mixed– Intensive/mixed (crop-livestock)– Landless

Core context attributes– Requirement for land– Requirement for labour– Requirement for cash credit– Requirement for inputs– Requirement for knowledge/skills

Seasonality

Consult seasonal calendar – estimate proportion of minimum availability to maximum availability– 1.0 = 0– >0.75 = 1– >0.5 = 2– >0.25 = 3– >0.0 = 4

Is minimum in the dry/winter season? – Winter season scarcity

Is minimum in the growing season? – Growing season scarcity

Example

Quantity

If you place more basal feed in front of your animals would they consume it?

– With extreme enthusiasm = 4– With considerable interest = 3– With some interest = 2– Yes but not immediately = 1– No = 0

  Something also about interest in supplemental/high

quality feed?

Quality

If you placed more basal feed in front of your animals would they consume it?

– With extreme enthusiasm = 0– With considerable interest = 1– With some interest = 2– Yes but not immediately = 3– No = 4

 

Commodity focus On a scale from 1 to 10 how important are the following

enterprises to cash income:

– Beef• Fattening• Breeding stock

– Dairy– Sheep/Goats

• Fattening• Breeding stock

– Pigs/poultry

– 0-2 = 0– 2-4 = 1– 4-6 = 2– 6-8 = 3– 8-10 = 4

Farming system

Which of the following best describes the target group:– Pastoral– Agro-pastoral/mixed– Intensive/mixed (crop-livestock)– Landless