Annex VI: Indicator Matrix for the Comparison of Country Studies
(after Kaske, unpublished)

Indicators		Country: Crops/products chosen:		Country: Crops/products chosen:
General/country specific
- request/agreements for system analysis in the post-production sector - lead agency - general time frame - local commitments: - financial - staff - hardware - database - list of local actors - overall food and nutritional situation - "food basket" available? - legislation/decrees - national/regional decisions - general conditions/frame- work
FAO step 1 Country analysis and role of food production
- structural adjustment programme - prices and price policies - technical and financial cooperation - national policies and role of food production - priorities of external donors (in post-production) - main crops for nutrition - main crops for export - food import and export
FAO step 2 Post production sector, general
- economic and institutional analysis of the market chain - consumer demand - input and output of the whole system - markets and their organisation - financial aspects, banks, availability of credit - value added - deficiency areas Mission specific: - participants (external/local) - time frame (with details, e.g. splitting) - TOR
FAO step 3 Actor analysis and social context		crop/ produce No. 1	crop/ produce No. 2	crop/ produce No. 1	crop/ produce No. 2
- main actors - indirect actors - supporting actors - degree of involvement of the actor in relation to (other) products and services - marketing costs margins, gender issues - communities, organisations - marketing costs, margins - gender issues - value added - poverty alleviation
FAO step 4 Analysis of constraints and bottle necks		crop/ produce No. 1	crop/ produce No. 2	crop/ produce No. 1	crop/ produce No. 2
- identification of key problems - interruption or imperfections in the chain of operations - access to resources - acceptability of innovations - affordability of innovations - appropriateness of policies, services, etc. - state of knowledge of the population - poverty alleviation - creation of employment

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FAO step 5 Appropriateness of technical interven-tions by operation and agro-ecological zone

District / agro-ecological zone

District / agro-ecological zone

- general information: - topography - meteorological details, precipitation, etc. - socio-cultural details: - ethnicity - farm size - percentage of subsistence - production pattern - post-production chain - infrastructure - marketing details