Author: Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, Federico VillarrealPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The case of zero-tillage technology in Argentina
Author: Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, Federico VillarrealPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The impact of shallow tubewells and boro rice on food security in Bangladesh
Author: Mahabub HossainPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Controlling cassava mosaic virus and cassava mealybug in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Felix NwekePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India
Author: Manoj Panda, A. Ganesh-KumarPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Combating stem and leaf rust of wheat: Historical perspective, impacts, and lessons learned
Author: H.J. Dubin, John P. BrennanPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: Homestead food production in Bangladesh
Author: Lora Iannotti, Kenda Cunningham, Marie RuelPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition
Author: Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J.D.H. Keatinge, Jacqueline dArros HughesPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Rich consumers and poor producers
Author: Johan F.M. Swinnen, Anneleen VandeplasPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Rural and urban linkages: Operation floods role in Indias dairy development
Author: Kenda CunninghamPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Between 1970 and 2009, India has overcome many infrastructural, market, and institutional challenges to transition from a dairy importing nation to the top producer in the world of both buffalo and goat milk, as well as the sixth largest producer of cow milk. In India, at least 100 million households are involved in farming and 70 million have dairy cattle. In India, dairy production is important for employment, income levels, and the nutritional quality of diets. Milk production in India is dominated by smallholder farmers including landless agricultural workers. For example, 80 percent of milk comes from farms with only two to five cows. A well-known smallholder dairy production initiative, Operation Flood, laid the foundation for a dairy cooperative movement that presently ensures returns on dairy investments to 13 million members. Operation Flood also advanced infrastructural improvements to enable the procurement, processing, marketing, and production of milk and to link India's major metropolitan cities with dairy cooperatives nationwide. This intervention transformed the policy environment, brought significant technological advancements into the rural milk sector, established many village cooperatives, and oriented the dairy industry toward markets.
Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development
Author: Mywish K. MarediaPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively comes closest to providing the proof of development effectiveness. It is defined as the systematic analysis of the significant or lasting changes in people's lives brought about by a given action or series of actions in relation to a counterfactual. There are three basic types of retrospective IAs: macro-level IAs that focus on the contribution of developmental efforts to an impact goal aggregated at a sector or a system level; micro-level impact evaluations (IEs) concerned with estimating the average effect of an intervention on outcomes at the beneficiary level; and micro-level ex post impact analysis concerned with total effects of a development effort after the outputs are scaled-up. Ex post IAs have evolved and expanded over the decades in both breadth and depth of analysis in response to evolving development themes and methodological advancements. The increased emphasis on learning from evaluations has also seen responses from both quantitative and qualitative camps of the evaluation community. The paper argues that generation of robust knowledge that feeds into making developmental policies and investment decisions requires a hierarchical and cumulative approach to "improving the proof" through rigorous and a variety of impact assessment methods applied incrementally at the project, program and system level. Subjecting as many development interventions as resources allow to rigorous impact assessment based on a common framework can help build a critical body of evidence on impacts of development interventions, which can then be subjected to meta-analyses to help assimilate results across different studies and build a knowledge base on what works and what does not.