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It's Time for a Change in the Breeding Mindset

Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessment Challenges and Opportunities for CGIAR and its partners

Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050 - Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

The overarching question that Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050 (World Scientific, 2018) seeks to address is: How should agricultural research and policy re-orient itself to address the ‘perfect...

Where Can Agricultural Research Most Contribute to Winning More, and Losing Less? Key Insights and Implications for CGIAR from Science Forum 2018

This brief summarizes discussions at Science Forum 2018 (SF18), organized around four main building blocks (1. Research design; 2. Prioritizing activities; 3. Measuring success; and, 4. Demonstrating...

From Land Productivity to Labor Productivity – Interview with SPIA Chair Karen Macours

The Rigor Revolution in Impact Assessment: Implications for CGIAR

This synthesis study highlights major changes in methodology and standards of evidence in impact assessment that have taken place over the past decade, taking as its starting point the publication of...

Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050 - Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring the pressures — threats as well as opportunities — on the global agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The overarching aim...

Foresight@CGIAR Workshop Report

This report captures discussions and key highlights from the Foresight@CGIAR workshop that took place on 13 November 2018 at the University of Washington, Seattle. The objective of the event was to...

Assessing the Adoption and Diffusion of Natural Resource Management Practices: Synthesis of a New Set of Empirical Studies

This synthesis study provides the context and rationale for a set of new empirical studies estimating the adoption of natural resource management (NRM) practices that could have both private economic...

Impact Assessment and Landscapes in CGIAR

How can Small-scale Farmers in Niger be Encouraged to Adopt Rainwater Harvesting? Results from a Pilot Study

Rainfed agriculture in the Sahel of Sub-Saharan Africa is plagued by low and erratic rainfall and strong winds, contributing to soil erosion and degradation. Rainwater harvesting through micro...

Do Tailored Input Recommendations and Flexible Subsidies Increase Uptake and Yields among Maize Farmers in Mexico?

Agricultural productivity remains low among small-scale farmers in developing economies. At the same time, adoption of productivity-improving technologies is often low. A plausible reason is that the...

From Knowledge Embedded Technologies to Knowledge Intensive Technologies

A Country-Level Approach for Tracking the Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries

Although investments in agricultural research and development are key to agricultural growth, demonstrating this in a way that is convincing and relevant to policy requires data on adoption of...

Working with Universities in Developing Countries