Vietnam+Site+Selection

=Vietnam Site Selection=


 * Definition of a site**: Two or three villages or a commune where we will pilot test interventions at farm level. The rest of the value chain could be located outside the boundaries of the site.

Three systems: rural to rural; rural to urban; urban to urban
 * How many sites do we select per system? At least two, otherwise confounded effect with site
 * For the ACIAR project, we may work in only two systems
 * 1) **Existing projects**
 * 2) ACIAR (not yet funded). 2 ‘regions’ already selected but no specific site
 * 3) IFAD CIAT project (started Feb 2012). Agro Enterprise Development Process (AEDP) will identify the project VCs and ‘sites’. Hopefully, there will be 1 pig site.
 * 4) CRP 3.7 (limited funding for strategic activities)
 * 5) LIFSAP (Ministry)- specific districts in the ACIAR project provinces
 * 6) **Process**
 * GIS characterization using agreed criteria: ACIAR suggested regions; pig density; market conditions; poverty level; etc….
 * Method: overlay GIS layers of these criteria, validated at a stakeholders workshop
 * Output: two or three 'regions' (province) selected
 * **Scoring of sites -**within these regions using a detailed checklist used to collect site-level information
 * //Method:// develop a checklist for pig system (in collaboration with the Uganda pig VC); collect the required data for e.g. ten sites that will be scored
 * //Output:// two or so ‘sites’ selected within the two or three ‘regions’ selected (those with highest score). The sites are validated at a stakeholders’ workshop.
 * 1) **Next step: agree on criteria for the GIS characterization**
 * Tanzania used three criteria
 * 1) Human population density
 * 2) Farming system - only mixed farming
 * 3) Cattle density
 * Discussion on criteria for Vietnam pig
 * ACIAR province selection
 * 1) pig density, poverty...not using GIS
 * 2) we will run the analysis using GIS with the following criteria: pig density, poverty level and population density. We can also include market access

Draft report (January 2015)

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