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Revisions needed to FEAST to provide info for Techfit

Revisions needed to FEAST to provide info for Techfit. Alan Duncan Techfit 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

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Revisions needed to FEAST to provide info for Techfit

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  1. Revisions needed to FEAST to provide info for Techfit Alan DuncanTechfit Development Meeting May 23-24 2013

  2. 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

  3. 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

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  5. 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?

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Farming system • Which of the following best describes the target group: • Pastoral • Agro-pastoral/mixed • Intensive/mixed (crop-livestock) • Landless

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