ET_2012_P&R_Research_Ideas

= Ethiopian Highlands Annual Review and Planning meeting = Go back to the event agenda
 * 17-18 September 2012 **
 * Info centre break out room, ILRI Ethiopia, Addis Ababa **

//In this session, organizers presented the research ideas formulated on the previous day before letting new participants ask their questions in a marketplace format.//

Situation analysis

 * Q: What about the baseline survey?
 * A: IFPRI will take the responsibility for it. The important start is to use existing datasets. It's important to team up with other partners that may have other data sets.
 * Q: Do we stratify communities based on gender etc.?
 * Q: Do we start from what farmers have or what they want to have?
 * A: Perhaps both.
 * Q: Measuring sustainable intensification?
 * A: We can establish a set of common indicators (biophysical, institutional etc.), using tools such as FEAST, AKT5 etc.
 * Q: How do we learn from the successes of West Africa to East Africa? We have to use farmer-to-farmer

Integrated system improvement
This includes four main areas focusing on developing approaches for interventions at farm level. Some activities are about knowledge management and capacity building... Inventories of management practices etc, testing novel extension models... Training on market-oriented production.
 * Q: What tools will you use?
 * A: Happy strategies game to prioritize SWC practices, Techfit for prioritizing livestock feed etc.

Scaling and dissemination
This phase is about programme site stratification, project site selection, action/research site characterization, tntervention inventory etc. The approaches we will use: participatory, system approach, socio-ecological niche (agro-ecological, socio-cultural, institutional, economic & local ecological factors), integrated systems approach to scale up (biophysical, socio-economic, management). The methods & tools we will use: GIS, QuickWater spatial analysis), baseline survey, value chain assessment, dynamic modelling framework (whole farm business simulator). The actors we will involve: player actors in scaling up on impact pathways, multi-stakeholder platforms...