Understand and describe present use of Jatropha in the present farming systems, and define possible future use of Jatropha in the evolving new farming systems of the villages.

Assess and explore ownership issues with regard to producing Jatropha on various types of land. This has implications on governance at village level.

Identify the roles of the people who have interests in the Jatropha production and processing, and how Jatropha production changes their roles. This includes socio-economic effects on gender balance, household incomes and village organization. Check on potentials for legal, social or environmental conflicts and explore possible ways to deal with them.

Identify the possible/potential other uses of by-products in the village economy, such as the press-cakes, as extra income generating activities (organic fertilizer, feed, soap, etc.). (Linking with Component J10).

Apply Participatory Technology Development PTD:
Full utilization of farmers own local knowledge and experience in developing the Jatropha potential in their villages. This shall apply for all action which is undertaken. The results will always be generated in exchange with and in collaboration with villagers. Only insights and technology that have been tested and developed with villagers and are supported by them are considered suitable for demonstration and propagation. The reason for this strict referral to assessment of technology by local villagers is because of the locally specific social / technical / economic complexities of the prevalent farming systems in which they operate, and which are outside the grasp of theoretical science. Ie. with complex multi-variable innovations a farmer usually can assess much better what can work in his / her village than an outsider scientist. PTD is an iterative process of "action research" through collaboration between actively experimenting farmers and outsider experts.

Fast and early tests of propagation and planting techniques that can be replicated.

A steady stream of insights and technologies emerging from the PTD work which show how Jatropha production can be profitably undertaken in the villages.

Toolkits and described procedures of the PTD methodology for replication while scaling up in other parts of the country.

20 villages that have a successful working knowledge of Jatropha production and which are then capable of explaining their procedures to visiting villagers from other villages throughout the province.

A website which tracks the progress of the farmer experiments.