GIZ commissioned AgriDev, under the Strengthening the Local Economy (SEL) programme, to assess agricultural mechanization across five areas of Lebanon and produce a costed, prioritised investment roadmap. The assignment covers:
- A producer survey of around 250 farmers, 50 in each of the five areas, stratified by value chain and farm size, with women and youth deliberately included.
- Five focus group discussions, one per area, on barriers, gender roles in machinery operation and service provision, and extension and demonstration needs.
- A geo-referenced census of around 80 service-market actors — custom-hirers, dealers and importers, repair workshops, spare-parts suppliers, fabricators, and machinery-owning cooperatives.
- Eight to ten business-model case studies of rental, custom-hire, cooperative and machinery-entrepreneur models.
- Fifteen to twenty key informant interviews with the Ministry of Agriculture, LARI, LIBNOR, universities, financial institutions, Kafalat and municipalities.
- An assessment of up to six value chains: olives, potatoes and cereals, grapes, apples and stone fruit, open-field and protected vegetables, and fodder and dairy.
- A GIS mechanization service map of actors and services, travel-time catchments, production areas and underserved zones, delivered as editable layers with metadata.
- A prioritised portfolio of investment concepts, each with its service model, ownership, cost recovery and maintenance arrangements.
- An agricultural mechanization roadmap across three horizons — first twelve months, one to three years, beyond three years — with a stakeholder validation workshop.
All field data is collected on KoboToolbox, with enumerator training, pilot testing, supervisor back-checks on 10–15% of records, and GPS and photo evidence. Data is disaggregated by sex, age, nationality and area. Personal data is handled under GDPR principles, with AgriDev as independent data controller.