Institutional development in national agricultural research: Issues for impact assessment

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur A. Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Research Issues

scholarly journals Understanding and evaluating the impact of integrated problem-oriented research programmes: Concepts and considerations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M Belcher ◽  
Karl Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Systems Transformation ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Researchers and research organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their work contributes to positive change and helps solve pressing societal challenges. There is a simultaneous trend towards more engaged transdisciplinary research that is complexity-aware and appreciates that change happens through systems transformation, not only through technological innovation. Appropriate evaluation approaches are needed to evidence research impact and generate learning for continual improvement. This is challenging in any research field, but especially for research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and intervenes in complex systems. Moreover, evaluation challenges at the project scale are compounded at the programme scale. The Forest, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) research programme serves as an example of this evolution in research approach and the resulting evaluation challenges. FTA research is responding to the demand for greater impact with more engaged research following multiple pathways. However, research impact assessment in the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) was developed in a technology-centric context where counterfactual approaches of causal inference (experimental and quasi-experimental) predominate. Relying solely on such approaches is inappropriate for evaluating research contributions that target policy and institutional change and systems transformation. Instead, we propose a multifaceted, multi-scale, theory-based evaluation approach. This includes nested project- and programme-scale theories of change (ToCs); research quality assessment; theory-based outcome evaluations to empirically test ToCs and assess policy, institutional, and practice influence; experimental and quasi-experimental impact of FTA-informed ‘large n’ innovations; ex ante impact assessment to estimate potential impacts at scale; and logically and plausibly linking programme-level outcomes to secondary data on development and conservation status.

Enhancing ex post impact assessment of agricultural research: the CGIAR experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Kelley ◽  
Jim Ryan ◽  
Hans Gregersen
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Ex Post

scholarly journals Sustainability Impact Assessment – An Overview with a Holistic and Transdisciplinary Perspective towards Agricultural Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savio Barros de Mendonca ◽  
Anne-Elisabeth Laques
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Managerial System ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

It is important to insert agricultural research in this paper by considering it as a strategic area for providing knowledge and a technological base for agricultural production, considering that this sector generates outcomes with respective impacts to rural zones, supply-chain, economy, society and environment, representing a key piece for reaching United Nations objectives of sustainable development to each country and to the planet. Aiming to analyze how agricultural research organizations (as for instance: INRA and CIRAD, from France and EMBRAPA, from Brazil) have driving sustainability impact assessment methodologies and their interaction with transdisciplinary and holistic principles, using as a base innovation concepts. This paper will display an overview on concepts and approaches about sustainability impact assessment, but looking from a transversal perspective, passing by an historical description on impact assessment and on concepts related to sustainable development and sustainability. We will search for unedited models of sustainability impact systems by converging holism, transdisciplinarity and sustainability. There are several methodologies but few demonstrate an integrated view with a transversal perspective. It is also imperceptible any concrete governance-managerial system for sustainability impact assessment, considering every stage of the process, from a strategic to an operational level, including, analyzing environment, economy and society dimensions as one unique perspective. Such as a complex and multidimensional sector of economy, agricultural research requires profiled sustainability impact assessment with an innovative and dynamic approach.

INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AS A SOURCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES

2007 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
MICHAEL NELSON ◽  
MYWISH K. MAREDIA
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Chain Reactions ◽  
International Agricultural Research ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
High Yielding Varieties ◽  
Global Statistics

This paper deals with conceptual and methodological issues arising in ex post environmental impact assessment of agricultural research. It presents a case study of approaches used (and not used) and challenges associated with the ex post assessment of environmental impacts of research supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The paper illustrates the difficulty of tracking the global effects of agricultural research on natural resources due to a diffused and complex set of decision variables effecting intensification and expansion of land in agriculture, primarily in developing countries. The central point in ex post impact assessment concerns costs and benefits (in terms of relevant budget constraints and time frame for decision) of in-depth empirical versus qualitative analysis. Within this context we conclude that the empirical counterfactual approach ("with" and "without" research) is not an option. As a second best alternative, it is inferred from cases and global statistics that: in specific instances the introduction of high yielding varieties did have unintended impacts on natural resources, in part due to policy distortion and in part due to unforeseen chain reactions in the ecosystems. But on net balance, increased yields attributable to international agricultural research have had positive environmental impacts in the form of net land saving.

scholarly journals GEOINFO: impactos sociais do repositório de dados de pesquisa da EMBRAPA

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
Daniela Maciel Pinto ◽  
Geraldo Stachetti Rodrigues ◽  
Gustavo Spadotti Amaral Castro ◽  
Gisele Vilela Freitas ◽  
Angelo Mansur Mendes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
The Impact

GeoInfo is a repository that provides the spatial research data generated by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) to understand the dynamics of agriculture in Brazilian territory. Considering the efforts required for the implantation and institutionalization of the repository, the absence of Information Science studies related to the investigation of the impact of the uses made from the data and information made available in research data repositories, as well as the impact assessment process used by EMBRAPA since 1989, it is opportune to investigate the impact of the repository for its target audience, that is, geoscience specialists. Thus, the objective of this work is to present the results of an impact assessment carried out with GeoInfo, based on the “Ambitec-TICs: Module of criteria and impact indicators for Information and Communication Technologies”, specifically for the social dimension, existing at Ambitec-TICs

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