Information Collection (farmer knowledge, empirical), Validation, Integration, and Analysis (within and across thematic groups and sites)

I. Methodology (based on global meetings 1997 and 1999, e-mail discussion groups, concept and methods fliers, and training guide)

 

Outputs 1a-e:

Achievements

Burkina Faso

Mexico

Morocco

Nepal

Vietnam

Others (Ethiopia, Hungary, Turkey, Peru)

Review of existing data

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Training in participatory methods

 

on-going

 

on-going

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Diagnostic PRA survey to generate information for site and farmer selection

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

Ethiopia Hungary Peru

Turkey (with CIMMYT)

Defining criteria for site/farmer selection

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Establishment of sampling regime

(Global Meeting ’99)

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Establish criteria to limit data collection

(Global Meeting ’99)

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Ensuring compatible data collection across thematic areas

(Global Meeting ’99)

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Site/farmer selection

Site

X

X

X

X

Ethiopia

Baseline Information collection

 

in progress

 

X

 

X

 

X

 

Ethiopia

Field trials

starting

X

X

X

X

 

Laboratory work

 

X

X

X

starting

 

Formation of a data matrix across space and time

(Global Meeting ’99)

 

space

 

space

 

space

 

space

 

space

 

Ethiopia (space and time)

Statistical analysis linking farmer knowledge to empirical data

 

initial stage

 

in progress

 

in

progress

 

in progress

 

in

progress

 

Ethiopia

Statistical analysis linking thematic areas

(Global Meeting ’99)

initial stage

initial stage

initial

stage

initial stage

initial stage

 

Hypothesis testing based on baseline information analysis

 

initial stage

initial

stage

initial stage

   

 

 

Information Collection (farmer knowledge, empirical), Validation, Integration, and Analysis (within and across thematic groups and sites)

II. Information Collection (units and information categories based on global meetings 1997 and 1999, e-mail discussion groups, concept and methods fliers, and training guide)

 

Outputs 1a-e:

Achievements

Burkina Faso

Mexico

Morocco

Nepal

Vietnam

Others (Ethiopia, Hungary, Turkey, Peru)

Socioeconomic

  1. Farmer decision making: the effect of socioeconomic/ cultural and ecological factors on farmer decisions (hh size, distance to market, education, labour avail., soil type, access to inputs)
  2. Farmer management of diversity: incorporation of socioeconomic factors (gender, age, ethnicity) to disaggregate information

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

started

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

started

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

started

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

X

 

Agro-ecological (natural and farmer managed)

RRA

RRA

Baseline started

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

Ethiopia

Agromorphological

(descriptive and selection criteria)

RRA

RRA

Baseline started

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

Ethiopia

Population structure and breeding systems

RRA

RRA

Baseline started

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

Ethiopia

Seed supply systems (formal and informal)

RRA

RRA

Baseline started

RRA

Baseline started

RRA

Baseline

RRA

Baseline

 

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