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Milk IT coordination meeting-Morogoro 22 – 24 Jan, 2014

Day 1: Notes Morning session

Review of progress in Tanzania – Fred

Discussion

o Cultural aspect be considered when implementing interventions through IP Some social activities e.g. funeral, wedding are happening successfully WHY not developmental activities o Farmers should not wait for things to be moved by projects o Morogoro to use the experience from the Tanga Regional Platform to establish their regional platform o Demonstration plots need to be connected to feeding and milk production o Demonstration in communal land needs to be done with caution as may lack sense of ownership by farmers o Seeing is believing; farmers could participate in field visit/tour o Demonstration to bring immediate changes to farmers o Demonstration can be done in single plot and to different farmers i.e. one plot with treatments and multiplied in farmers plots e.g. different types of over sowing o Intervention based from FEAST result but there was no further analysis on cost/benefit o Cost benefit analysis should be taken into consideration. o Live fences are used especially in farmers plots, in communal trial land fencing should be highly reinforced to avoid trespassing by cattle o In India it is difficult to work on communal resources e.g. Maasai in Tanzania o Not sure if FEAST results have reached all stakeholders. o The idea of technologies to be tried by the IP came from researchers o Researchers need to adopt a broader perspective i.e. think to have added data from social economic studies not only the biophysical data, also to have a multi disciplinary team o Researchers to present basket of options of interventions to farmers, and create awareness to farmers o Demonstration do not consider economic aspects – this needs attention o Demonstration plots will serve as source of planting material and for training o Protocol on the results from treatment be in place