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Determining the key issues to be considered in the later
stages of the workshop.
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Participants at the parthenium workshop identified
options and opportunities for improving parthenium weed management, and
constraints to improvement. Three groups addressed opportunities and
constraints in the areas of:
 | policy options for management of parthenium; |
| options for management of parthenium on grazing
properties; and |
| options for management of parthenium on
cropping properties |
Each group listed all possible options for improved
management with factors affecting the performance of that option and a
rating of feasibility and acceptance. Priorities were assigned to each of
the options and the high priority options were carried forward to the next
stage.
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An alternative approach to identification and exploration of
opportunities and constraints used in other workshops is a pin-boarding
technique. Here each participant records their ideas concerning the
opportunities and the constraints for improving weed management, writing one
idea per card. The participants then split into groups to pin their cards on to
a board and arrange them according to their similarity. The groups then
write a header card for each of the clusters of cards that succinctly describes
the essential ideas contained in that cluster of cards. The key issues covered
by the header cards are reported to the whole group, providing a basis for the
workshop participants to decide which key issues they would consider during the
third phase of the workshop.
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