SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS OF STRENGHTS, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITIES AND
THREAT FOR CAMBODIA
Areas of Inquiry Summary Table:
CAMBODIA
Area of Inquiry: Farming Systems Gender: Needs & Strategies
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Integrated farming system approach
Mix crop
Agro-forestry
Raising fish, and other animals
Rotation of crop
Model farms considering sustainable intensification
Participatory sustainable land use/land use planning to develop resilient farming systems
Assessing the needs of the farmers
Identify core problems
Soil management and use of a large biodiversity
Enhance good agricultural practices (varieties, nutrition, pest management, post-harvest, storage, food processing)
Development of new technologies (cultivation, crop management, pest controls, safety, …)
Development of crop calendar and establishment and improvement of farmer field school
Conservation improving traditional farming systems
Considering socioeconomic aspect and sustainability of the system
Giving values to ecosystem services
Indicators assessing the changes at different scales (from field to landscape)
Integrate the research methodologies on farming systems diagnosis and development
Labor management and efficiency + Technical
Capital investment
Credit loan (low rate)
Good market value-chain
Market community and development
Tech transfer (Researchers – Extension Officers – Farmers – and back)
Area of Inquiry: Gender: Needs and Strategies
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Develop a model of gentlemen programs (sharing household responsibilities)
Educate women on nutrition and health care for their families, kids in particular
E-learning for women
Encourage and enable women to participate
Encouraging females to advocate their view
Encouraging females to make decisions on farm management and property ownership
Equal chance to participate and empower women in decision-making
Fostering women’s group for exchange and experiences
Gender restrictions should be removed
General agriculture training for women including farm management
Identify potential activities for women
Innovate technology/practices in agriculture so that women can operate effectively and smoothly like men
More female extension workers
Prioritize female-head households as beneficiaries
Prioritize some tasks which deem more appropriate for women
Promote and encourage the quota of female government officers in agriculture
Promoting appropriate scale machinery
Promoting women to have higher education
Woman enterprises
Area of Inquiry: Nutrition: Needs and Strategies
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Animal raising and aquaculture
Awareness of nutrition loss during cooking
Community Food Education
Eat diverse kinds of food
Education and promote dietary schema at different stages
Education on diet diversification
Food pattern education
Green farming school
Home Garden
Home gardening – vegetables and fruits
Home-based and medium scale food processing and supplement nutrient
Improve food safety and quality
Innovation of food menu
Insect (cricket, bee, …) raising
SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS OF STRENGHTS, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITIES AND
THREAT FOR CAMBODIA
Areas of Inquiry Summary Table:
CAMBODIA
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Multiple cropping
Nutrient calculation (protein, vitamins, energy, …)
Organic Veggies
Participatory land use planning
Produce more safe food
Promote multi-purpose farm: vegetable, animal, fruit, aquaculture, forest
Promote school gardening program
Promoting Nutrient (Health Foods)
Promoting on advantage of veggie, meat, and fish…
Promoting safe food program by median
Social and nutrition well fare
Training of Trainers (TOT) about nutrition each farmer in one village
Training on “nutritional function” to people in rural area
Area of Inquiry: Capacity Building Needs and Strategies
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Applied/Extension skill training and train local
Business development training
Commune network
Deploying qualified extension worker to the local community
Developing training materials focusing on local environment
Developing vocational training on the main components of SI
Geospatial expertise
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How to be control information of Agriculture
Increasing the number of academic papers related to SI
Integrate SI approach into curriculum/program
Internships and scholarships
Promote community development of Agriculture
Research and development program: IPM, SRI, PHT, Marketing, CA
Scholarship to get experience and skills from other countries
Setup qualified lab and lab staff with proper training
Starting new generation/advance technologies in training
Strengthening connection among field, lab, and teaching activities
Technical training
Area of Inquiry: Communication Needs and Strategies
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Allocating incentive to extension officer
Announcement/leaflet
Chief of Community (Worker)
Communication Technology
Develop central database at national level: post-harvest, market, innovation techniques, case studies
Develop communication club (group) at village level
Developing communication network for the stakeholders
Developing e-learning tool for higher education (open library to share case studies)
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Disseminate information to farmers
Down to top communication approach (information flow)
External and internal communication
Face to face communication
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Fact Sheets
Farmer-farmer exchange via field day
Identifying the stakeholders
Information Center
Linking local farmer to extension worker in the village, the commune (community?), the district, and the province
Meeting/Workshop/Training
National and international scientific exchanges via conference workshop
Needs assessment
Open and easy access to info
Partnership/Collaboration with Community Companies
Product Promotion
Telephone, Social Networks
Tools in communication (TV, radio, internet, …)
SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS OF STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS FOR TANZANIA AND BANGLADESH. Based on Focus Group activities conducted by SIIL PI’s in April 2014 TANZANIA BANGLADESH Area of Inquiry: Geospatial Tools: Needs & Strategies Remote Sensing ‐ There is expertise in some Development of geospatial database is needed organizations and they are working with some, Geospatial expert scientist are needed but they need more support. Training on geospatial technology Land use, indices based, mapping in vegetation, Access and sharing mechanism of geospatial data flora and fauna is needed. Crop modeling development Mapping of soils is needed Development of pest and disease modeling Predictive mapping E‐Agriculture GIS ‐There is expertise in some organizations and Funds for research are needed they are working with some, but they need Modern laboratory with geospatial equipment support Select crop zoning NARS, CIAT, are resources Selection of technology Crop/Soil/Water/Livestock Models ‐ There is Soil mapping expertise in some organizations and they are Weather forecasting for agriculture (We have weather working with some, but they need more support data, e.g. rainfall, radio, T.V., but you have to purchase University of Dar E Salaam, for example it.) Area of Inquiry: Farming Systems: Needs and Strategies Incorporating resistant varieties and adapted Develop integrated farming system approaches for animals livelihood (Agriculture, fish, and livestock) Integration of animals and crops Diversification and intensification Vaccination for poultry and livestock Intercropping vegetables with maize Better land use and water management practices Development of location specific intensive cropping Carbon sequestration development technologies pattern Introducing drought tolerant crops, water Introduction of pulses (for e.g. mung bean, pigeon pea) harvesting techniques, index based livestock and Pattern based resource, conserving management crop insurance practices (crop specific input recommended and use of Farm inputs for IPM, and ISFM residual fertilizer) Climate smart agriculture (CSA) – options for Validation and adoption of developed technologies women (reduce labor) Development and promotion of appropriate farm Training farmers on use of weather information machinery on agriculture Establish agroforestry systems Mitigation of climate change Development homestead (vegetable) production system Participatory evaluation of technologies by Climate related risks might generate threat to adoption stakeholders in the value chain or technology Partnership and platforms Adaptation of new technologies (climate change) Review of village by‐laws on grazing post‐harvest Bangladesh “ripe” for creative durable change in crops Training farmers on conservation Ag. and crop management, though it is made complex and technologies difficult at a farming systems level. BD has long years of Introduce water efficient practices and crops farming system research TANZANIA Social component to be reorganized and understood in the farming system BANGLADESH Area of Inquiry: Gender: Needs and Strategies Labor saving technologies for women mainstream Development of gender (women) friendly technologies, gender issue in development programs e.g. poultry, ducks, milk, home gardening, post‐harvest, Long term training, MS, PhD composting, banana slicing, onion slicing Train more women in extension Gender participation in post‐harvest management Facilitate natural resources plans to ensure house (seeds & food processing) and development hold service on fuel and water technologies Formalize women based self‐help groups (SGH) / Women empowered through Income generated community based groups activities Water harvesting technologies at household Develop women farmers club levels Equal opportunities and wages Land tenure and ownership issues must be Participation of women in home gardening understood and advanced to ensure land access Recognition of women in development activities for women Women involvement in small scale entrepreneurship Gender issues needs more donor attention development Gender sensitive reporting is needed Favorable working environment for women Gender equity, mainstreaming gender balance Women education should be increased Area of Inquiry: Nutrition Needs and Strategies Establish linkage between Maize cultivation for poultry and fish feed greater research/extension/farmers to bridge the protein in diets knowledge gap Intercropping vegetables with maize Introduce fruit trees to demarcate boundaries Homestead gardening and contours and alley cropping Cultivation of fruits and vegetables in hilly areas Water harvesting for home garden (kitchen Utilization of fallow lands with fruit and vegetables garden) (ensure year round) Inclusion of pulses/oil crops in CP Sensitize farmers plus consumers on post‐harvest Fortification of crops; e.g., gold rice, tomatoes Demonstration on high nutrition value genotypes Use mass media for nutrition campaign Nutritional sensitive crop breeding Cultivation of high protein containing crops, e.g., high Stimulate financial support for non‐staple crops protein maize, groundnut •Vitamin and mineral rich Proper post‐harvest storage structure vegetable and fruit cultivation all over the country Emphasize nutritional researchers to be engaged Nutrition update through post‐harvest processing and in the collaboration handling Building consumer awareness of different food Development of food package with balanced nutrition quality/availability, communication pathways for school children Testing nutrition gardening models available with BARI Area of Inquiry: Capacity Building Needs and Strategies TANZANIA Need global plant clinics (CABI), example field based training Facilitate group information Training farmers to business / accounting to increase access to credit Banks need to understand ag production systems to be able to give loans / credit Impart entrepreneurship to all productive gender categories Degree and non‐degree capacity building to youths (male and female) Enhance knowledge of markets BANGLADESH # Network building (physical and human) •# Exchange of expertise • # e‐Agriculture; e.g., dissemination of information, 3G access for mobile, Apps for cell phones, GIS, databases. •Skilled manpower (Short‐
term/Medium‐term training) •Strengthening of Lab facilities Recycling of waste products Mobile networking # of skill development of scientists (e.g., PhDs, MS, postdocs, short‐term trainings) # of Trainings for farmers (e.g., technology dissemination) # Infrastructure development, e.g., lab, facilities Operational fund for capacity building activities Training of extension of NGO’s personnel (short‐term training on development technology) Area of Inquiry: Communications ‐ Needs and Strategies Meetings using extension and village leaders to Government Organizations (Extension): convene the group (village wide and smaller Seminars, workshops, training group with vested interest) Review workshops, (Regional, Divisional, Central) Women groups (informal and formal) Women: Demonstrations, (e.g. cattle shows, or farm NGO’s; women groups; “woman‐to‐woman” based, can be group or individuals) at the farmers Government groups (e.g. ICM, IPM) location / on‐farming technologies Family training (all members) Exchange visits Clubs (ICM – gender balance) Farmers platforms Small holder farmers: Documentation of success stories, case studies, Extension workers/services /Farmer Field Days •BARI make available to farmers Technology Village (BTV) Faith‐based meetings – after church / local Motivational training (between farmers group‐go‐to‐
contact (i.e., trusted source) and leaders farmers) – topic and specific (multiple groups) Social cultural events All other communication media (booklets, reports, hand‐
Dramas/songs • Traditional drums, outs in local languages Local radio/ TV stations Websites Cell phones / SMS Mobile phone; newspaper (SMS) Mass media – Radio; Word of mouth, Speakers (mega‐phone) TV Design and develop promotional materials Relevant to gender needs and context