Impact Evaluation of the Farmer Training and Development Activity in Honduras

The evaluation report clearly documents that the treatment and control groups of farmers had substantially different characteristics, making it impossible to use the control group as a valid counterfactual in the evaluation. The evaluation report makes a compelling case for the use of an alternative evaluation approach, because a counterfactual could not be established.

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• Measuring Results of the Honduras Farmer Training and Development Activity - Executive Summary

Evaluation of Water-to-Market Training in Armenia

The MCC compact with Armenia was a five-year investment(2006-2011) of $177.6 million in two projects: irrigated agriculture and rural road rehabilitation. Although most output and outcome targets were met or exceeded, the evaluation did not detect impacts on adoption, productive income or household income.

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• Measuring Results of the Armenia Farmer Training Investments - Summary

Measuring Results of the El Salvador Production and Business Services Investments

In dairy, the evaluation estimates there were impacts on adoption and increases in farm income. In horticulture, the evaluation estimates impacts on adoption, but no impacts on farm income. In handicrafts, the evaluation estimates impacts on employment for program participants, but no impacts were detected on productive income.

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• Measuring Results of the El Salvador Production and Business Services Investments - Executive Summary

Evaluation of the Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development (SARID) programme

SARID (Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development) was a successful programme. It produced high quality science; there was more movement towards developmental impact in some projects than expected; and participants themselves, both scientists and stakeholders, viewed it as successful and well-run. It provided a unique opportunity to link fundamental research through to its application in developing countries.

The Impact of Rural Business Services on the Economic Well-being of Small Farmers in Nicaragua

The independent evaluation found varied results looking at farm income and household consumption. In addition, although the evaluation was not originally designed to test whether or not farm investments increased as a result of the training and increase in farm income, the evaluators did look at changes in investments in mobile and fixed capital in order to potentially explain why they were not finding changes in household consumption.

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• Measuring Results of the Nicaragua Rural Business Development Services - Summary

An Evaluation of the MIDA FBO Training

The evaluation found varied results for the three regions invested in under the Commercial Training Activity. The evaluation showed no impact on yields or crop incomes on average across the three regions. However, northern region farmers’ annual crop income increased significantly relative to the control group, over and above any impacts recorded in the other zones.

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• Measuring Results of the Ghana Commercial Training Activity - Executive Summary

From Seed to Scale-up: Lessons Learned from Australia's Rural Development Assistance

This review of Australia’s rural development assistance found that the lives of large numbers of poor rural people had been improved as a result of Australian interventions. Australian aid has helped poor rural women and men access more value from new markets for example.

Evaluation of the Farmer Field School Approach in the Agriculture Sector Programme Support, Bangladesh

The main purpose of this Evaluation has been to analyse and to document – in a gender perspective – the results and the lessons learned from using the Farmer Field School approach in the Agriculture Sector Programme Support Phase II.

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• Annex 1 - Background and context
• Annex 2 - Methodology

KOICA-MOFAFF Joint Evaluation Report on Rural Development in Cambodia

The two projects evaluated were found to be relevant to the ODA policies of both KOICA and MOFAFF, as the projects were aimed at supporting the Cambodian government in poverty alleviation and rural development.

Agricultural input subsidies in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study provides an assessment of the overall performance of agricultural input subsidy programmes in Malawi, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania, where so-called “smart” subsidies have been introduced in an attempt to maximise effects at the lowest possible costs.