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=Developing a R4D approach at farm-level - consultation and writing workshop=
'''Info centre break out room, 13-14 September, ILRI Ethiopia'''
[[Tech_integration_workshop_Sept2012_agenda| Back to the event agenda]]
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''The participants worked in groups to respond to the questions:''
* ''How can you construct a multi-dimensional typology?''
* For what scale can that typology be done?

'''Summary''':
* ''We should keep it simple but applicable to the whole of Africa RISING''
* ''A mixed approach looking at what we can do (based on current assets) and what we could do (based on aspirations) would be welcome''
* ''There are factors that can be intensified (education, capacities, network, institutions, technologies, information) and others not (production orientation strategies)''
* ''The surveys are very useful for topology and baseline''
* ''Scaling up remains an issue that has to be further explored''

'''Discussion''':

'''Group 1'''
* What are the dimension, participation, scale...
* We don’t need sophisticated approach but something quick to start with
* There are basic elements...why do we need to complicate?
* It has to be realistic and applicable at the field, to the whole Africa RISING
* Let’s adopt a mixed approach in terms of assets strategies and aspiration
* ''How'' remains a question

'''Group 2'''

What kind of household are there? Which ones we can intensify and which ones can we not ?

Those we can intensify:
* Biophysical aspects education, capabilities
* Social networks
* Infrastructure complementary technologies
* Institutions (markets, coops, trade relationships)
* Access to information
Those we cannot intensify
* Classify resources endowment and production orientations/strategies (land, livestock, labor, capital)
* Identify constraints and opportunities with these types

'''Group3'''
* (it might be easier to construct a topology if you have an idea in mind)
* Matching attributes particularly with farmers
* Knowledge and skills for collective action
* How do you go about the typology with farmers?
* Orientation and aspiration, assess what farmers need and want
* The scaling out issue: does this process need to repeated
* To develop proxy indicators, to pick up key things, develop and present
* Different intervention fit with typologies

'''Group 4:'''
* We spend a lot of time on survey and participatory approach
* Typology construction
* We agreed to have combination approach
* We struggled with the issues of scaling
* Looking out into intensification, we agreed that the surveys are very useful for topology and baseline

Farm-scale research design Sept2012 OrganizingR4D - Revision history

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