Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects

The purpose of this guideline is to provide suggestions on designing impact evaluations for agricultural projects, particularly projects that directly target farmers, and seek to improve agricultural production, productivity and profitability. Specific issues in evaluating agricultural projects are addressed, including the need to use production-based indicators and to carefully consider indirect or spillover effects that are common in agricultural projects. The guideline considers the challenges of conducting impact evaluations of agricultural projects as well as the methods for assessing impact. Issues of collecting agricultural data for an impact evaluation and how to put together the overall design strategy in an evaluation plan are also covered. The guideline concludes with three case studies of impact evaluations designed for a technology adoption project in the Dominican Republic, a forestry/technology project in Nicaragua, and a crop insurance project in Peru.

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  1. Dercon, Stefan & Christiaensen, Luc, 2011. " Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: Evidence from Ethiopia ," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 96(2), pages 159-173, November.

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  1. Petraud, Jean & Boucher, Stephen & Carter, Michael, 2015. " Competing theories of risk preferences and the demand for crop insurance: Experimental evidence from Peru ," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211383, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
  2. Boris E. Bravo‐Ureta & Mario González‐Flores & William Greene & Daniel Solís, 2021. " Technology and Technical Efficiency Change: Evidence from a Difference in Differences Selectivity Corrected Stochastic Production Frontier Model ," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(1), pages 362-385, January.
  3. Jeremy Jelliffe & Boris E. Bravo-Ureta & C. Michael Deom & David Kalule Okello, 2016. " The Sustainability Of Farmer-Led Multiplication And Dissemination Of High-Yield And Disease Resistant Groundnut Varieties ," Zwick Center Research Reports 04, University of Connecticut, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy.
  4. Jelliffe, Jeremy L. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. & Deom, C. Michael, 2015. " Adaptation and Adoption of Improved Seeds through Extension: Evidence from Farmer-Led Groundnut Multiplication in Uganda ," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205980, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
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