This paper develops rapid reconnaissance guidelines for conducting research on agricultural marketing components of food systems. The term rapid reconnaisance (RR) will be used interchangably with the designations rapid appraisal, rapid assessment and rapid diagnostic assessment in this paper. A rapid reconnaisance survey is a broad and preliminary overview of the organization, operation and performance of a food system or components thereof be used as a tool for identifying system dynamics, linkages and overall problems, which can then be examined more intensely during follow-up programs of research
Publication year
2001
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry systems, alley cropping, crop yield, cropping systems, cultivation, fallow systems, farm inputs, hedgerow plants, innovation, land degradation
Geographic
United States of America
