The Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST) is a systematic method to assess local feed resource availability and use. It helps in the design of intervention strategies aiming to optimize feed utilisation and animal production.

FEAST is a participatory process to analysing livestock feeding systems; broadening traditional feed assessment approaches that focus on nutritive value to include larger constraints and opportunities such as labour, access to credit, seasonal differences and markets. The purpose of these participatory action research tools is to help in the design of intervention strategies that will optimize feed utilisation and animal production.

G-FEAST is a gendered version of FEAST to identify aspects of gender relations that affect animal feeding practices and identify differences in opportunities and constraints between households. G-FEAST identifies opportunities and constraints unique to gender relations and differences relevant to livestock feeding practices at household level and within market places.