TRANSFORMING IMPACT ASSESSMENT: BEGINNING THE QUIET REVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING AND CHANGE

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIE WATTS ◽  
DOUGLAS HORTON ◽  
BORU DOUTHWAITE ◽  
ROBERTO LA ROVERE ◽  
GRAHAM THIELE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Learning From Experience ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Institutional Learning ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
Consultative Group

SUMMARYScores of assessments of the impacts of agricultural research have been carried out over the years. However, few appear to have been used to improve decision making and the effectiveness of research programmes. The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative emerged within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), with the goal of strengthening learning from experience and using lessons to improve pro-poor innovation. It is testing approaches for expanding the contributions of impact assessment and evaluation to learning, decision making and improvement.

RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGES OF IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND GENDER ANALYSIS

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
NINA LILJA ◽  
JOHN DIXON
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Learning ◽  
And Gender

SUMMARYSince the Green Revolution, the public-sector's agricultural research strategy for increasing food crop productivity has been explicitly based on the premise that technology can cross political and agro-climatic boundaries, primarily through the ‘training and visit’ system of extension (also known as ‘transfer of technology’ and the ‘pipeline’ model). Today, a different strategy is emerging. Efforts to develop the necessary institutional capacity for more client-oriented participatory research, particularly in plant breeding, are now a central part of the public-sector agricultural research strategy. Greater use of participatory and gender-analysis approaches in agricultural research has significant conceptual and methodological implications for impact assessment and institutional learning.

scholarly journals Selective Learning: China, the CGIAR, and Global Agricultural Science in Flux

IDS Bulletin ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuli Xu ◽  
Lídia Cabral ◽  
Yingdan Cao
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Collaboration ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Selective Learning ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Exchange Programmes ◽  
Consultative Group

This article analyses the interaction between China and the CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) since the 1970s, exploring the formation of China’s modern agricultural science capability and its approach towards learning. While China was previously regarded and treated as a recipient of international scientific expertise, it is now a more equal partner and contributor, with capacity to provide funds, support exchange programmes for scientists, and collaborate in building laboratories and joint research programmes. Some of these now extend beyond the CGIAR system and are creating new platforms for scientific collaboration and knowledge production in the South. By offering an illustration of China’s ‘selective learning’ approach, emphasising self-reliance and pragmatism in its engagement with the CGIAR, this article feeds into broader debates on how China contributes to global development knowledge and learning.

Integrating gender in rice research

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (Special) ◽  
pp. 164-168
Author(s):  
BN Sadangi ◽  
Biswajit Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Work Participation ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Planning Project ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
And Gender

Gender mainstreaming in agriculture is new trend to address the inequalities of resources and work participation between men and women for ensuring equity in gender. Though women constitute about half of the total agricultural labour, their access to resources as well as decision making power is limited. Particularly, women in rice-based farming system though undertake hard work, own or share very limited resources and benefits in comparison to other systems. Various needs of women, while undertake research and technologies developed should be addressed appropriately through gender focussed planning, project implementation, monitoring as well as impact assessment. A systematic understanding and capacity building of the planners, researchers, development and extension machineries on innovative mechanism and gender sensitive perspectives would bring socioeconomic upliftment of not only women but the whole society.

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