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Moderated conference on impact assessment of agricultural research: May 2014

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Olawale F. Olaniyan is a researcher and also a consultant with specialization in the management and sustainable utilization of agricultural resources. I particularly have interests in providing evidence-based information that can guide policy and other regulatory frameworks.



Assessing the impact of research in the context of agricultural sciences is multidimensional just like the challenges of the farmers. Also, it is really amazing to realize that the results or outputs of many agricultural research for development cannot be replicated at the farmers' level and thereby making an objective assessment somehow challenging! This matter even gets worse when the impact of such an intervention is evaluated at a much later time relative to when the project or research was conducted. One reason for this observation is deeply rooted in the smallholder farmer's nature of dropping a technology/approach once the incentives (usually in monetary terms) and external supports are removed. In such cases, you might be surprised that the impact evaluation in the short-term differs from that of the long-term partly due to the reason just described.



In the smallholders' context, especially in the developing countries, quantitative assessment is important but it does not necessarily capture all the essential data needed for impact assessment of an agricultural research or development project; it may need to be complemented with qualitative measures such as story-telling and participatory group discussions. Through those means, the real appraisal of a project's impact can be feasibly made by the beneficiaries themselves. Such mediums usually provide opportunities to get information which can be fed back into subsequent activities or interventions. 



Olawale F. Olaniyan

International Trypanotolerance Centre

P.M.B 14, Banjul

The Gambia

http://www.itc.gm/ 

e-mail: walefestus (at) gmail.com



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