Assignment 3:

Commodity Systems Assessment Methods (CSAM)

Reading assignments. Review the document "Postharvest Principles -Cantwell", the manuals and data collection instruments, methodologies, etc. Resource: manuals as pdfs and online.

Visit the UNFAO website to access the complete CSAM manual and all the links to diagrams and tables: Commodity Systems Assessment Methodology (LaGra 1991). 聽 www.fao.org/inpho聽

Please review the chapters of the CSAM manual, become familiar with all the components of the commodity system and take a look at some of the sample questionnaires that are used for collecting data for each component. 聽 聽聽

You will be designing and using your own simplified CSA questionnaires during the next assignment, so please review the items included in the examples to see what might work best for the crop that you are interested in studying.

• LaGra et al 2016 CSAM Manual_English IICA
• PostharvestPrinciples cantwell

CSA

• Annex 1 to 4
• Annex 5聽to 10
• Annex 12
• Chapter 2 to 3
• Chapter聽4 to 5
• Chapter 6 and references
• Commodity Systems Assessment assignment intro (OLUBUKOLA ODEYEMI's conflicted copy 2014-10-02)
• Commodity Systems Assessment assignment intro (Postharvest Education's conflicted copy 2014-05-04)
• Commodity Systems Assessment assignment intro
• Commodity systems assessment methodology Chapter 1
• CSA Annex 11 checklist
• CSAM Figure 2.2
• CSAM Figure 3.1