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This document provides guidelines for deriving essential data from FEAST to enhance Techfit's development meetings. Determine constraints, seasonality, quantity, quality, and commodity focus within various farming systems. Evaluate core attributes like land, labor, credit, inputs, and skills.
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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
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