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Socio-Economic Profiles of WFP Operational Areas and Beneficiaries Types, length of storage, amount of losses, reasons for losses Measures taken to prevent or control losses 6. Division of labor: What do men/women do at each stage of production? 7. What is the agriculture wage rate? (with food/without food?) Wage rate for men? Women? Are there differences by season? Trends in agriculture wage rate over the past five years 8. Problems associated with production (Ranking exercise) Potential solutions to the problems listed above Has production been increasing or decreasing? Why? 9. Land tenure systems – ownership / access patterns Who owns land? Average landholding Is landlessness a problem? Why? Is there sharecropping? (terms & conditions, trends) Why? What are the sharecropping arrangements? (lease, mortgage, etc) Is there government khas land? (patterns of use, trends) Is there any conflict over land? Describe Trends in access to land B. Animal Husbandry 1. Types of animals raised, in order of importance Uses of livestock (Production, animal traction, slaughter, consumption, sale) When are livestock sold and for what reasons? 2. Availability of Pasture: is there any conflict over pasture land, fodder (availability, changes in accessibility) 3. Major animal diseases, availability of veterinary services 4. Changing trends in animal husbandry over the past 5-10 years 5. Major constraints & potential solutions C. Horticulture 1. What kinds of horticultural activities are practiced? Homestead gardening? 2. What is normally grown? 3. Who participates in this activity? 4. What are the seasons? 5. Is the production for sale or for consumption (for each crop)? 6. Do most households have gardens or arable land nearby? How far away normally? D. Collection of Forest Products 1. Are wild foods or forest products consumed? Types, why consumed, time of year of consumption, importance in relation to distress, trends in the diet. Names of wild foods or forest products 2. Types of forest products and uses. What forest products are processed for sale? When? 3. To whom do you sell forest products, prices, seasonal variations? 4. Fuel wood, charcoal production? 5. Marketing of forest products: Where are the markets? (Timber, non-timber, bamboo etc.? Who buys the forest products? When do you sell and Why? 6. Any conflict related to forest resources and land tenure? What is the nature of the conflict? Why? How to solve? 7. Changes in availability / scarcity? Are wild foods disappearing? Why? 8. Are they growing more significant in the diet? Why? 9. Major constraints & potential solutions 10. Trends in forest product use over the past 5-10 years? Comment about Forest Department – Supportive or not? Why? E. Fishing 1 Types in order of importance. Changes in reliance on fishing 2 Fishing gear owned or funded/dadan boat, nets, costs 127
Annex: Focus Group Discussion Topical Outline 3 What is the moneylending and renting system, credit access for fishing and availability Extension service availability and quality 4 Fishing production/harvest amounts 5 Marketing arrangements, price and seasonal variations 6 Changes in availability /scarcity? 7 Describe the quality/availability/access to fishing inputs (boats, nets etc), markets, and storage facilities. 8 Problems or constraints to production? How to solve these problems? F. Other Income Generating Activities (IGAs) 1. Type of activity, extent of practice, & number of activities practiced: a. Artisanal production, b. Agricultural enterprise c. Weaving, local beer, d. Micro-enterprise, e. Skilled labor, f. Petty vending and trading, g. Service, h. Wage labor. i. Rice alcohol (CHT) j. Other IGA 2. When do you do each of these activities? (Year-round, annually) 3. How much do you earn from each IGA? 4. How do you access raw materials? Are they always available? (seasonality) 5. Demand & use of credit: Is credit available? Source of credit for IGAs (moneylenders, government, NGOs Terms of credit (interest rates, loan terms, mortgages) 6. Any support service provided by government? By NGOs? Any technical skills training? Extension services? Who provides? 7. Availability of wage labour: How many days/month do you participate? Months/year Are wage rates different for men & women? Male rates? Female rates? 8. Migration for work: where to, why, who goes, when, for how long? 9. Remittances: from where, when? 10. Any constraints in earning enough from this activity? 11. Trends over the past 5-10 years III. COMMUNITY PROBLEMS, COPING STRATEGIES, & SOLUTIONS Rank in order of importance, and address strategies/trends for each A. MAJOR PROBLEMS: Thinking about the issues discussed above and others not discussed, what are the major problems facing the community? What are the major causes of these problems? Prioritise -- Ranking Exercise B. TRENDS – Are these problems getting worse or better over the last 3-5 years? Why worse or better? C. Interviewer summarizes key problems discussed, asks if anything was left out. D. COPING STRATEGIES – What do you do to get through the problem periods? Rank coping strategies from order of severity. E. What can the community do / is the community doing to solve these problems? List and rank the most important initiatives. 128
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