Project Metrics
By 2017, the SAKNepal project aims to measure our success by documenting progress for two groups:
1) Test farmers (based on detailed on-farm measurements)
2) Farmers-as-consumers who purchased/attempted a SAK product/practice (based on smartphone surveys of 5,000 consumers and sales data)
We have identified the following objectives:
Obj 1. Intensify terrace productivity •Test farmers: Increase farmer crop income potential by 50% based on totality of the interventions due to increased yields and crop diversification; •Farmers as consumers (scale up): For those who purchase or attempt at least one relevant product/practice, increase crop income by 10% on average, and achieve 30% of respondents to indicate they would continue with one product/practice (adoption rate)
Obj 2. Reduce in female drudgery •Test farmers: Reduce female labour by 40 hours/year, and reduce self-reported female physical strain by 20% associated with agriculture/food based on totality of the interventions. •Farmers as consumers (scale up): For those who purchase or attempt at least one relevant product/practice, reduce female labour by 10 hours/year, and reduce self-reported female physical strain by 5%, and achieve ≥30% of respondents to indicate they would continue with the product/practice (adoption rate).
Obj 3. Improve environmental sustainability •Test farmers: Achieve an improvement of 30% on average across key project indicators of sustainability (e.g. manure quality, legume yield/usage, post-harvest losses). •Farmers as consumers (scale up): For those who purchase or attempt a relevant product/practice, improve a key environmental sustainability indicator by 20% from at least one product/practice, and achieve ≥20% of respondents to indicate they would continue with the product/practice (adoption rate).
Obj 4. Promote climate change resiliency •Test farmers: Achieve an improvement of 25% of at least one key climate resiliency indicator (home garden diversity, yield of dry season forage crops, impact of drip irrigation on yield, etc.). •Farmers as consumers (scale up): For those who purchase or attempt a relevant product/practice, improve one key climate resiliency indicator by 10%, and achieve ≥20% of respondents to indicate they would continue with the product/practice (adoption rate).