Research+activities

MilkIT's research activities focus on the following:

Site selection
Documentation of the various steps and decisions involved in selecting research activity sites (control sites)?

Village census
A brief data-set of all villages within a sub-district/cluster to help with selecting the platform sites.

Household census
A list of all households in the settlements with 37 basic variables (assets, dairy, livestock & feed trade).

Village survey
A short survey of village characteristics of all villages within the selected platform sites.

Development actor mapping
An overview of all development actors and their activities, especially related to rural development and livestock, within the area of the selected platform sites.

Value chain assessment
An assessment of dairy and feed value chains using the ILRI-developed tool box, moving out from the selected platform sites.

Feed assessment
An assessment of feed requirements, feeding practices, constraints and opportunities using the ILRI-developed Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST).

Technology matching
Screening a wide range of potential technologies for their potential to overcome constraints and improve livelihoods as well as their appropriateness to local conditions using the ILRI-developed technology fitting approach (TechFit).