• Summary :
  • Objective :

To evaluate drivers to agricultural innovation and diffusion

• Main methods :

In Cote d’Ivoire and Morocco, we will build on SPIA’s accumulated experience for stocktaking assessment of agricultural technologies and practices developed by CGIAR centers operating in the country. We will further propose a 20 years retrospective political science analyses of drivers and outcomes of policy decisions related to research and diffusion of agricultural innovations.  In Ethiopia, we will build on current SPIA activities in partnership with ESS and World Bank LSMS/ISA teams. We will further seek to expand the analysis of agricultural innovations’ diffusion in three directions: (i) their effects on nutrition and health outcomes; (ii) their effects on changes in livelihoods, with a specific focus on pastoralism; and (iii) the making of research and diffusion-related policies. Through innovative measurement and related experiments (described below), we will strive to develop scalable data collection protocols that can be included in current surveys (e.g. LSMS/ISA) or that can easily be linked through time and geographic matching.