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Nourishing the Future through Scientific Excellence Consultative Group on international aGriCultural researCh

The Science Council’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) has for some time been aware of the need for a document that provides strategic guidance to impact assessment practitioners and research managers for planning, conducting and managing ex post impact assessment (epIA). EpIA is a specialized area of evaluation designed to identify and measure the consequences of past research invest...

Public-private Partnerships in Agricultural Research: an Analysis of Challenges Facing Industry and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

International Food Policy Research Institute discussion papers contain preliminary materials and research results and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most discussion papers will eventually be published in some other form, and their content may be revised. ABSTRACT Public-private partnerships offer potentially ...

Nourishing the Future through Scientific Excellence Consultative Group on international aGriCultural researCh

FA O /1 78 15 /A . C on ti Building on an earlier exploratory study, in 2007–2008 the CGIAR’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) undertook an initiative in collaboration with seven CGIAR centers to augment the evidence of policy-oriented research (POR) impacts within the CGIAR system and to further the development of methodologies in this challenging area of impact assessment. Seven cas...

Nourishing the Future through Scientific Excellence Consultative Group on international aGriCultural researCh

In the 1960s when South Asians faced widespread famine, the technologydriven agricultural solutions of the Green Revolution (GR) were an unprecedented success, creating food surpluses within 25 years despite a 70% increase in population1. The GR raised many out of poverty, saved large areas of forest and wetlands from conversion to cropping, and helped launch the economic transformation of the ...