Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions

Livestock production is a significant source of livelihood among small scale farmers and pastoralists in Kenya. Livestock productivity is however challenged by inadequate quality and quantity of feed. The solutions offered by development agencies fail to integrate farmers’ opinion and to address the...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kinyua, Charity, Lukuyu, Ben A.
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Livestock Research Institute 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101934
_version_ 1855531955200720896
author Kinyua, Charity
Lukuyu, Ben A.
author_browse Kinyua, Charity
Lukuyu, Ben A.
author_facet Kinyua, Charity
Lukuyu, Ben A.
author_sort Kinyua, Charity
collection Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace)
description Livestock production is a significant source of livelihood among small scale farmers and pastoralists in Kenya. Livestock productivity is however challenged by inadequate quality and quantity of feed. The solutions offered by development agencies fail to integrate farmers’ opinion and to address the underlying context issues of limited access to water, land, knowledge, capital, inputs and labour. ILRI and CIAT have therefore developed the Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) which addresses feed issues and context issues using participatory rural appraisal. FEAST has been used widely and is currently being used in dairy and livestock value chains of the AVCD project in North Eastern, Eastern, Coastal and Western Kenya. A total of 58 of the 61 FEAST facilitators trained completed the before and after studies. The studies were used to assess impact of training on knowledge, attitude and behavior of the respondents in development of context specific feed interventions rather than limited one-fit technologies. Significant change was achieved in knowledge with a p value of 0.001, significant at 95% confidence level and medium effect size of 0.57. There was no significant change in all the nine aspects assessed for attitude and behavior change indicating that respondents were already knowledgeable in the agricultural systems and participatory development of context specific interventions.
format Informe técnico
id CGSpace101934
institution CGIAR Consortium
language Inglés
publishDate 2019
publishDateRange 2019
publishDateSort 2019
publisher International Livestock Research Institute
publisherStr International Livestock Research Institute
record_format dspace
spelling CGSpace1019342025-11-04T20:25:53Z Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions Kinyua, Charity Lukuyu, Ben A. livestock animal feeding feeds Livestock production is a significant source of livelihood among small scale farmers and pastoralists in Kenya. Livestock productivity is however challenged by inadequate quality and quantity of feed. The solutions offered by development agencies fail to integrate farmers’ opinion and to address the underlying context issues of limited access to water, land, knowledge, capital, inputs and labour. ILRI and CIAT have therefore developed the Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) which addresses feed issues and context issues using participatory rural appraisal. FEAST has been used widely and is currently being used in dairy and livestock value chains of the AVCD project in North Eastern, Eastern, Coastal and Western Kenya. A total of 58 of the 61 FEAST facilitators trained completed the before and after studies. The studies were used to assess impact of training on knowledge, attitude and behavior of the respondents in development of context specific feed interventions rather than limited one-fit technologies. Significant change was achieved in knowledge with a p value of 0.001, significant at 95% confidence level and medium effect size of 0.57. There was no significant change in all the nine aspects assessed for attitude and behavior change indicating that respondents were already knowledgeable in the agricultural systems and participatory development of context specific interventions. 2019-09-30 2019-06-28T10:47:17Z 2019-06-28T10:47:17Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101934 en Open Access application/pdf International Livestock Research Institute Kinyua, C. and Lukuyu, B. 2019. Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions. ILRI Research Report 53. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
spellingShingle livestock
animal feeding
feeds
Kinyua, Charity
Lukuyu, Ben A.
Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
title Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
title_full Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
title_fullStr Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
title_full_unstemmed Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
title_short Impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the FEAST tool in changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
title_sort impact evaluation on the effectiveness of the feast tool in changing knowledge attitudes and behaviour in the development of livestock feed interventions
topic livestock
animal feeding
feeds
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101934
work_keys_str_mv AT kinyuacharity impactevaluationontheeffectivenessofthefeasttoolinchangingknowledgeattitudesandbehaviourinthedevelopmentoflivestockfeedinterventions
AT lukuyubena impactevaluationontheeffectivenessofthefeasttoolinchangingknowledgeattitudesandbehaviourinthedevelopmentoflivestockfeedinterventions