The Integrated Analysis Tool (IAT) – A model for the evaluation of crop-livestock and socio-economic interventions in smallholder farming systems

C.K. McDonald, N.D. MacLeod, S. Lisson and J.P. Corfield

Agricultural Systems, 2019, vol. 176, issue C

Abstract: Smallholder farming systems are highly complex and many intervention strategies aimed at overcoming particular resource constraints can impact adversely on other resources, or do not fit with the farmer's goals. As a result, uptake of technical solutions is typically poor. One method of ensuring intervention strategies are better suited to particular smallholder farmers and increasing the potential for technology uptake, is the use of whole farm systems modelling. In the course of conducting development projects in Indonesia, an Integrated Analysis Tool (IAT) was constructed to fulfil this role. The IAT is highly transferable and has since been adapted and extended for application in several other South-East Asian countries, in China, as well as in countries in Africa and the sub-continent. Use of this integrated model has assisted in the definition and uptake of new technologies in a number of smallholder development projects around the world.

Keywords: Model; Crops; Forages; Ruminants; Economics; Smallholder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102659

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