Background
This document is based on a communication received with the approval letter for this project, in which the review panel stated that, to enable monitoring and evaluation of the project, the selection of cases and methods to be used for analysis must be finalized and justified within the first six months of the project.

This document also addresses questions that the project team discussed with Professors Eve Fouilleux and Hans Peter Binswanger – the two experts of the review panel entrusted with the task of following up on our project – and Ian Johnson, who also joined the meeting at the R4D Forum on 19 March 2015.

During the first six months of the project, the project team has organized inception workshops with a number of key stakeholders in Bolivia and Kenya, including government officers, non-governmental organizations, local community representatives, and local academics. These workshops aimed at further
advancing the conceptualization and selection of food systems to be investigated, and at defining the methods to be used for analysing them.