SPIA news
"Don’t Look for a Donkey in the Lake"
SPIA's first country consultation workshop (agenda and participant list here) in October 2019 was a key part of our strategy of working intensive...
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Can Diffusion Strategies Adapted to the Characteristics of CGIAR Innovations Enhance and Sustain Uptake?
A call for cases for learning-oriented impact studies* Background and scope of the call The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) ...
New Window for Expressions of Interest for Impact Studies
Estimating the long-term, large-scale impacts of CGIAR research on development outcomes SPIA has re-opened the window for submissions of ...
Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Intensification - New SPIA Call for Expressions of Interest
SPIA is pleased to announce a call for Expressions of Interest for studies of "The environmental impacts of agricultural intensification". We hav...
How Data Collected To Identify Cassava Varieties in Vietnam Helped Southeast Asia Respond Rapidly To a Viral Disease Outbreak
This post was co-written by Ricardo Labarta (Senior Scientist & Impact Assessment Research Leader, CIAT), Wilmer Cuellar (Virologist, CI...
From Land Productivity to Labor Productivity – Interview with SPIA Chair Karen Macours
Not all of CGIAR’s objectives are maximized by increasing yield alone; if we want to address rural poverty we need to increase income, income...
The ‘Policy Pathway’ Matters: Assessing the Impact of Policy-Oriented Research Is Essential to Show CGIAR’s Contribution to Development Outcomes
One of the primary ways that CGIAR research contributes to development outcomes is through influencing how polices are designed and implemented. ...
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...
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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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...