Participatory policy development for sustainable agriculture and rural development

Guidelines from the sustainable agriculture and rural development - Farming systems evolution project

Marcelino Avila with Frederic Dévé and Paul Mundy

FAO Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Project, 2005

Introduction

• The SARD-FSE Project
• What is in this book?

Part 1 Sustainable agriculture and rural development

• What is SARD?
• Pillars and objectives of sustainable agriculture and rural development
• SARD components and interventions
• Why participatory policy development?

Part 2 How to do participatory policy development

• 1 Get organized
• 2 Select the focus area
• 3 Analyse the current situation
• 4 Identify scenarios for the future
• 5 Identify recommendable policy changes

Part 3 Tools for policy and institutional analysis

• 1 Checklist of indicators for sustainable development

• 2 Brainstorming

• 3 Diagramming and mapping techniques

• 4 Semi-structured interviews

• 5 Card sorting

• 6 Focus group discussion

• 7 Stakeholder analysis

• 8 Historical trends and milestones

• 9 SWOT analysis

• 10 Agri-food value chain analysis

• 11 Scenario analysis

• 12 Stakeholder negotiation encounters

• 13 Policy action matrix

• 14 Writeshops

• 15 Project logical framework analysis

Part 4 Resources

• SARD and SARD-FSE
• How to organize
• Diagnosis of territories and farming systems
• Policy and institutional issues
• Decision-support tools