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From Food Security to Nutrition Security
While ‘hunger’ continues to resonate as a cause deserving of funding support, focusing solely on staple crops is no longer appropriate in a w...
Opportunities and Challenges for the CGIAR in a Changing World
The Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently convened its 17th meeting at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquar...
Turning the Lens on Ourselves: Evaluating Evaluations
Working in a research for development organization, the similarities between evaluators and researchers has become more apparent to us in the IEA...
Policy Seminar: Integrating Research and Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seminar, 'Managing natural resources for sustainable production systems: A re...
Is the Current Agriculture Technology Strategy Unsuitable for Getting Smallholders Out of Poverty?
Currently, agriculture technology strategies are mostly based on implementing technologies and innovations that increase yield. This may see...
Scaling Up DNA Fingerprinting for Crop Variety Identification
DNA fingerprinting is the process through which genetic material is extracted from a sample taken from an individual plant, or population of plan...
Farm Size and Productivity - Lessons from Recent Literature
Testing our Assumptions on Research, Policy, and Practice In the coming weeks we will be publishing summaries of three key papers/presentation...
Data on Adoption of Improved Varieties: Why Do We Need These Estimates?
The Metrics from Which All Else Follows…? The breeding and dissemination of improved crop varieties has been a central feature of CGIAR rese...
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Developing, Using, and Assessing TOC in CGIAR
What have been the lessons learned from developing and using Theories of Change (TOC) in CGIAR’s research for development programs? What are th...
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Research Outcomes, 2013-2016
Unlike seeds which physically embody the technological change within them, most natural resource management (NRM) research outputs are disembodie...
Experimental Impact Evaluations of CGIAR Research, 2014-2016
The development of new technologies by the various CGIAR Centers, CRPs and their NARs partners seems to hold great promise in addressing the chal...
Under-evaluated Areas of CGIAR Research, 2013-2016
Background Many studies over the years have sought to document the impacts of agricultural research although the vast majority of these have f...