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FEAST—The Feed Assessment Tool
1. FEAST – the Feed
Assessment Tool
Jane Wamatu, ICARDA
Africa-RISING Quick Feed Project Inception Workshop, Addis Ababa, 7-8 May 2012
2. What is FEAST?
A tool to assess feed resource availability and
use at site-level
A systematic and rapid method
Broadens feed assessment to determine:
whether livestock is an important livelihood strategy
importance of feed relative to other problems on the farm
Helps in the design of site-specific strategies for
feed supply and utilization through technical and
organizational interventions
Tool is still under refinement
3. Components of the FEAST Tool
• Overview of Farming System
PRA • Description of the Livestock Production
System
Exercise
• Major Problems, Issues and
Opportunities within the livestock system
Individual • Quantitative Information on crop-
livestock production, feed availability,
Farmer feeding rations
Survey • Qualitative Information - perception on
feed
Data
Analysis & • Enter data into FEAST Template
Developing • Based on result, develop ideas for
Intervention
Interventions
5. FEAST Output
PRA FEAST
Report REPORT
Analysis of feed
availability, quality and
seasonality
Key livestock-related
problems as seen by
farmers
&
Questionnaire Informs potential
Results Interventions