Topics: Agriculture

Discussion

A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects

Posted on 15/03/2023 by Daniel Ticehurst

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), monitoring...

Blog

“Here we go again” - A lack of learning in the monitoring and evaluation of agriculture projects

Posted on 14/03/2023 by Daniel Ticehurst

There is an apparent irony in the fact that systems supposedly designed to help us learn from experience have been so reluctant to learn from their...

Blog

Monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture and rural development sectors ‒ reflections on the NEC Conference

Posted on 08/11/2022 by Monica Lomena, Renata Mirulla

Discussion

Evaluating agroecology: what is your experience?

Posted on 27/04/2022 by Seda Kojoyan

Dear EvalForward Community, As evaluators working in the agriculture field, we increasingly need to assess the environmental and socioeconomic...

Guidance Document

Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) - Test version

With the help of multiple partners, FAO has developed a global analytical framework for the multidimensional assessment of the performance of...

Blog

Evaluation and performance assessments for agroecology

Posted on 20/04/2022 by Seda Kojoyan

As evaluators, we are often encouraged to collaborate early with projects and programmes, in order to establish baselines, for instance.

Blog

Connecting data and research to policies to transform the agricultural sector: the EPA Forum

Posted on 30/03/2022 by Kisito Gandji, Carolle Ahodekon

From 2 to 3 December 2021, the Evidences - Policies - Actions (EPA) Forum had its second edition, organised in a hybrid format under the theme...

Blog

Monitoring, evaluation and learning: How can we maximize capacity?

Posted on 02/11/2021 by Anna Maria Augustyn

Growing interest in MEL Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) has recently gained momentum in the context of agricultural innovation and...

Guidance Document

Impact assessment and evaluation tools

This handbook was developed by the EU LIASON Project Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks, and contains...

Blog

An insight into evaluating agricultural innovation challenges and prizes

Posted on 17/05/2021 by Bhavik Doshi

Discussion

External coherence of agriculture interventions

Posted on 23/11/2020 by Nabyouré Jean Stanislas OUEDRAOGO

Dear members, I would like to share with you one of the themes I am working on at the moment. In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector is the field of...

Blog

Lessons from the evaluation of IFAD’s support to innovations for inclusive and sustainable smallholder agriculture

Posted on 11/11/2020 by KOUESSI MAXIMIN ZACHARIE KODJO, Pamela Dianne White, Anne Floquet

Innovations are key to improve the effectiveness of agri-food systems and better meet the rising demand for food worldwide. In particular, they are...

Discussion

How do we move forward on Evaluation Systems in the Agriculture Sector?

Posted on 29/10/2020 by Judith Katabarwa

Dear EvalForward members, Agriculture is Rwanda's major economic sector. It accounts for 24 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and about 64%...

Blog

Evaluating business innovations in agriculture-based social enterprises

Posted on 26/10/2020 by Ravinder Kumar, Andy Frost

Innovation is not about technology alone. Innovation is about the process of using ideas (novel or otherwise) in new ways and combinations, for...

Report

Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020

This year marks the 10-year countdown to the end-date of the 2030 Agenda. According to the data contained in the FAO report, collected before the...

Blog

How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel

Posted on 21/09/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA

An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana and Tim Njagi, shared...

Brief

Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector

Issued on 2020 by FAO

The Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector carried out by the Office of Evaluation of FAO with EvalForward aimed at...

Webinar

Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19

AVANTI and EvalForward organized an e-Panel to discuss challenges and explore solutions to data quality production in the agriculture sector in the...

Event

Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19

online, Jul 21, 2020

AVANTI and EvalForward will host an e-Panel discussion on “Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19” on Tuesday 21 July...

Blog

Value chain approaches: reaching the very poor

Posted on 05/06/2020 by Fabrizio Felloni

A value chain is the full range of activities – including design, production and distribution – required to bring a product or service from conception...

Blog

Importance of leadership in Results-based management. Highlights on a recent e-Panel

Posted on 20/05/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA

In a recent e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, we explored the role of leadership in instilling a culture of Results-based management (RBM)...