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Monitoring and evaluating agricultural science and technology projects: theories, practices and problems

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:13 authored by Erik Millstone, Patrick Van Zwanenberg, Fiona MarshallFiona Marshall
Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scientific and technological innovation projects and examines how approaches to M&E can be modified or enhanced to optimise positive impacts on those intended recipients. This article concludes that innovations are most successful when they are accomplished within `innovation systems¿; that advantage should be taken of opportunities to involve intended recipients of the innovation at early up-stream and mid-stream stages of projects to assess the accuracy and adequacy of theories of change; that the types of tools and methods used in carrying out M&E influence the types of data obtained; and that the cultures of research and development institutions may inhibit reciprocal communications but the development of intermediaries between institutions and farmers could make a useful difference.

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  • Published

Journal

IDS Bulletin

ISSN

0265-5012

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

6

Volume

41

Page range

75-87

Pages

13.0

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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