The following Focal Institutes were included in the present analysis:
- Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA), Botswana
- Department of Agricultural Research (DAR), Botswana
- Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU), Burundi
- Crops Research Institute – Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI-CSIR), Ghana
- Faculty of Agriculture, National University of Lesotho (FA-NUL), Lesotho
- Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER), Mali
- Natural Resources Development College (NRDC), Zambia
- School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Zambia (SoAS-UNZA), Zambia
An important lesson learned from using the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) methodology is that the change captured by this survey instrument for the different SWOT factors requires careful interpretation. It is less straightforward than may be originally perceived.