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Moderated conference on impact assessment of agricultural research: May 2014

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Wed, 28 May 2014 12:40:09 +0200
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I am Francis Mukoyi from Zimbabwe. I am a plant breeder currently working on cotton with the Cotton Research Institute, Kadoma. Greetings to all participants who have shared their knowledge with us. The whole conference has been an eye opener in many respects of project evaluation.



My career is mainly in crop development, having worked with various crops including rice and Irish potato in the last years. Participatory crop improvement techniques have been the mainstay activity in our programs and I work with farmers from the selection of segregating breeding materials through to the selection of stable advanced materials. I have often realized that there are problems especially with the adoption of new varieties where all stakeholders especially farmers are not included in the process. This failure of adoption of technologies makes evaluation at the end of the chain difficult. The same applies when a project is run without it being adopted and masterminded by the beneficiaries. The evaluation of the impacts of any new technologies to the farmers can be influenced by the adoption rate. Messages 80 (by Andrew Fieldsend), 83 (by Daniel Suryadarma) and makes it clear that there is need to rely on both quantitative and qualitative data in impact assessments. In the case of assessing the impact of variety adoption to farmers it may be difficult to come up with realistic indicators as proposed by Litha Magingxa in message 79. Some of the changes and indicators take several years to be seen.



In cementing my input, I strongly agree with Dr AbdulJabbar Alkhazraji, Message 71, especially on the lack, or absence, of a coordinated system between research scientific centers (universities, research center...etc) and private sector. This makes impact assessment of products of agricultural research relatively difficult to assess. It is my hope that by the end of the conference, indicators can be identified for impact assessment of research products.



Francis Mukoyi

Plant Breeder

Department of Research & Specialist Services (DR&SS)

Cotton Research Institute

Bag 765 

Kadoma

Zimbabwe

Tel: +263 

Cel: +263 773 060 571

e-mail: mukoyif18 (at) gmail.com



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