Monitoring and Evaluating Agricultural Science and Technology Projects
Theories, Practices and Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11470701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Millstone (0000-0001-9034-0567, University of Sussex), Patrick Van Zwanenberg (0009-0007-3495-3386, University of Sussex), Fiona Marshall (0000-0002-1946-4150, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 75-87 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IDS Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436 |
| Publisher | Institute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00185.x |
| OpenAlex | W2087697592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
Recently there has been a realisation that agriculture, and in particular the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming, can be a key to poverty reduction in developing countries. This article reviews approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of scientific and technological innovation projects and examines how approaches to M&E can be modified or enhanced to optimise positive impacts on those intended recipients. This article concludes that innovations are most successful when they are accomplished within `innovation systems¿; that advantage should be taken of opportunities to involve intended recipients of the innovation at early up-stream and mid-stream stages of projects to assess the accuracy and adequacy of theories of change; that the types of tools and methods used in carrying out M&E influence the types of data obtained; and that the cultures of research and development institutions may inhibit reciprocal communications but the development of intermediaries between institutions and farmers could make a useful difference
Agriculture · Commons · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Livelihood · Management science · OpenAccess · Political science · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Engineering · Environmental Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |