Topics: Agriculture

Book

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms

Issued on 2024 by FAO; IFAD; UNICEF; WFP; WHO

Every year, this most intensely scrutinized of FAO’s reports presents the headline number of undernourished people around the world, while advocating...

Book

Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation

Issued on 2024 by Routledge

Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the...

EvalForEarth Summary

Summary: Proving the value of agroecology for farmers and food systems: what methods and evidence do we have?

Issued on 2023 by EvalForward

Ravinder Kumar, associate professor at the University of Greenwich, London, started a discussion on EvalForward aimed at gathering experience of how...

Discussion

Proving the value of agroecology for farmers and food systems: what methods and evidence do we have?

Posted on 14/11/2023 by Ravinder Kumar

Agroecology at farm level is about good agricultural practices, such as crop diversification and rotation, intercropping, crop-livestock integration...

Blog

Conducting MEL with digital agriculture service providers – lessons from leveraging MEL to develop farmer-centric digital services

Posted on 25/09/2023 by Emily Gamble

Discussion

How to evaluate science, technology and innovation in a R4D context? New guidelines offer some solutions

Posted on 10/05/2023 by Svetlana Negroustoueva

Dear colleagues, The Evaluation Function of CGIAR would like to reopen last year’s discussion on How to evaluate science, technology and innovation in...

Guidance Document

Monitoring, evaluation and learning in farmer field school programmes. A framework and toolkit

Issued on 2007 by a

This document provides guidance and tools that will help farmer field schools to bring about the change expected by setting up a robust monitoring...

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...