Introducing TechFit
Adugna Tolera
Africa-RISING Quick Feed Project Inception Workshop, Addis Ababa, 7-8 May 2012

Issue
• Farmers
– Feed a constraint
– Intervention needed
• Researchers
– Technology options
– Basket of technologies available

Match farmers’ context to technology
Score for Score for
technology context
attribute attribute
Land X Land =
Labor X Labor =
Credit X Credit =
Input X Input =
Knowledge X Knowledge =
If technology demands land => lows core for land
If farmers do not have or very small land holding => Low score for land

Technology filter
• Technology options to address feed problem
(list of technologies)
• Pre-filter
– Context relevance X Impact potential score

Main filter
Score for Score for context
technology attribute
attribute
Land X Land =
Labor X Labor =
Credit X Credit =
Input X Input =
Knowledge X Knowledge =
Total =
Rank

Cost benefit analysis
• What does the technology cost?
• What does the technology deliver?
• Is it worthwhile?

Final output
• Indentify promising feed technologies that are
likely to work
• Better understanding of why and why not
technologies work or do not work