“Key Informant Survey” of Production, Value, Losses and ... - DfID

Table III.4. Overview of the relationship between Key Questions (Knowledge Outputs) of
the Research Programme and its Activities, “X” signifying an activity to address a question.
KNOWLEDGE
1A: 1B: Problem 2A: 2B: Farm- 3A: Village 3B:
OUTPUTS:-
Problem analysis: Farmlevel level Village-
analysis: Social conlevel control: control: level
Fly sequences control: AppropEffective- control:
damage and EffectiveriatenessnessApprop- Activities
1.1: Knowledge Review
constraints nessriateness
1.1.1: Incidence mapping X
1.1.2: Damage tabulation X X
1.1.3: Biology review X X X
1.1.4: Controls tabulation
1.2: Survey
X X
1.2.1: Trapping X
1.2.2: Rearing out X X
1.2.3: Key informants X X X X
1.2.4: SSIs X X X X
2: Farm-Level Control Experiments
2.1: Laboratory SKP study X
2.2: Field SKP study X
2.3: On-farm trials
3: Village-Level Studies
X X X
3.1: Institutional study X
3.2: Village-level trials X X
3.3: Village PRA X
Activity 4: Closing Workshop
Together, the studies proposed will allow the assessment of how realistically and practically
farm-level management may be improved from economic, social, environmental and health points of
view, while remaining appropriate to farmers and thus able to be actually adopted. This will lead to the
final output of this project: first recommendations as to the optimum farm stratagem in every case,
categorised by crop, fly species, the financial and time resources available to the farmer, operational
scale (from small-plot to village level) and other criteria; second robust and productive village- and
local-level plans for the improvement of fly pest management, tailored to the specific ecogeographical,
economic and institutional contexts of the particular areas where problems are found.
Several publications will be prepared on socio-economic studies, baits, lures, fly migration and
IPM components. It is anticipated that some of these activities, as is normal, will be completed after
the end of the project.
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