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Monitoring and evaluating agricultural science & technology projects: theories, practices and problems
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posted on 2023-06-08, 17:05 authored by Erik Millstone, Patrick Van Zwanenberg, Fiona MarshallFiona MarshallRecently 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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IDS BulletinISSN
0265-5012Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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6Volume
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75-87Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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