Feed+uptake+limitations

On Day 1, participants identified and categories key factors influencing the uptake on feed technologies:


 * Categories and some examples of factors that could impact on uptake of technologies**:


 * **Natural resource and land use**: land tenure and size; common property management; agro-climatic and farm system setting and variability
 * **Complementary technologies**: cropping intensity, type and mechanisation; animal breed and health; irrigation and water conservation
 * **Cost/benefit (economics**): labour seasonality; labour cost and availability; economic return to technology; trade-offs and opportunity costs
 * **Tradition and culture**: gender roles and distribution of benefits; risk mitigation options; user risk aversion; livestock keeping mindset and objectives
 * **Market linkages and demand**: product prices; market performance and concentration
 * **Institutions and policies**: public investment choices; regulations on quality etc; enabling environment for private actors
 * **Capacity**: knowledge and capacity of service and extension actors; collective action and organisation; user knowledge and skills
 * **Infrastructure**: credit; seed systems; other input supply and repair
 * **‘Density and clustering’** of livestock activities

Also on Day 1, we asked participants to write a card commenting on the following statement:

//Feed technology uptake is most limited by …//


 * Support for intermediary tools for uptake of technologies
 * Researchers/scientists
 * Non-adoption by the farmers
 * Limited knowledge of feed and nutrition from farmers’ side
 * Adoption by farmers
 * Economics of the technology
 * Farmers’ knowledge of basic nutrition concepts
 * Knowledge/understanding of opportunities
 * Adoption of animal nutrition technology by the farmers depending on their economic conditions
 * Adoption (economics)
 * Smallholders’ incremental benefit insignificant
 * Isolation of feed technology from: market value chains, other technologies, etc
 * Planning (seasonal)
 * Outreach
 * Requirements of the technology
 * Too little involvement of the private sector
 * Limited understanding of the complex innovation process
 * Imperfections/failures in livestock value chains / innovation systems