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Using a decision support tool to screen for pro-poor policies: Application of Extrapolate to smallholder dairy systems in East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

P. K. Thornton
Affiliation:
ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
P. J. Thorne
Affiliation:
Stirling-Thorne Associates, P.O. Box 23, Llangefni, Ynys Mon LL74 8ZE, UK
C. Quiros
Affiliation:
ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
D. Sheikh
Affiliation:
ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
R. L. Kruska
Affiliation:
ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
T. P. Robinson
Affiliation:
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative, FAO-AGAL, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy
J. T. Dijkman
Affiliation:
ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
M. Herrero
Affiliation:
ILRI, PO Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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Extrapolate (EX-ante Tool for RAnking POLicy AlTErnatives) is a decision support tool to assess the impact of policy measures on different target groups. It is designed to serve as a “filter” that, given the broad characteristics of the population, allows the user to sift through different policy measures to assess ex ante the broad potential impacts of these before deciding to look at particular policy options in more detail. Extrapolate models, in a very simple way, the impact of changes on constraints facing potential beneficiary groups, and how these may affect outcomes and their livelihood status. Extrapolate now makes use of mapping facilities from another decision-support tool, PRIMAS (Poverty Reduction Intervention Mapping in Agricultural Systems), that allows the user to match characteristics of particular technological options and constraints with the spatial characteristics of particular target groups in the landscape.

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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2005

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