This report describes the concepts and methods used to evaluate a regional capacity development project in Latin America. The project under study aims to strengthen planning, monitoring, and evaluation in agricultural research organizations in the region. The report outlines the procedures employed in five evaluation studies and summarizes the results of each study. It then presents consolidated findings in response to three evaluation questions: What were the main contributions of the project to agricultural research management?

This is a simple analytical tool that has been developed as part of Sida’s action programme for capacity development. It is intended to provide guidance in project preparation and project assessment. It shall assist Sida staff and other actors to define needs for capacity development. It will thus help to identify factors that are important for sustainable development.

Mainstream agricultural research has focused primarily on technical and biological aspects and is aimed at controlling or manipulating nature through the use of external inputs, such as
agricultural chemicals or super seed. In developing countries, the results of this research have benefited some resource-rich farmers in well-endowed areas, were suitable to only a limited
extent for poorer farmers in the more favourable areas, and were - in most cases - completely inappropriate for small-scale farmers in marginal areas, e.g. in the mountains or the drylands.

Cross bred cow adoption is an important and potent policy variable precipitating subsistence household entry into emerging bulk markets. This paper focuses on the design of policies that create and sustain milk-market expansion among a sample of households in the Ethiopian highlands. In this context it is desirable to measure a household's `proximity' to market in terms of the level of deficiency of an essential input. This problem is compounded by four factors.

This publication is based on invited papers presented at the conference "Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor", held in November 1999 at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. The conference was convened in collaboration with the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH (now Aventis CropScience) and the German Foundation for International Development (Deutsche Stiftung fUr internationale Entwicldung - DSE).

This presentation is from the Global FFS webinar series on Climate Change, “Session 2: Equipping Farmers for Climate Action: Key Concepts and Tools for FFS.” The document presents a case study on the Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) approach and illustrates how it can be used as an “innovative curriculum responding to climate change.”

This present and explain key concepts related to climate change.

The first presentation, “Overview of Climate Change” by W. Pieter Pauw (Eindhoven University of Technology), explains what the greenhouse effect is, its causes, and its consequences for the environment.
The second presentation, “What Do Farmers Need to Know About Climate Change to Take Action?” by Brent M. Simpson (FAO Consultant), explains the impacts of climate change on agriculture and outlines the different adaptation and mitigation measures and tools available to farmers.

This is a case study conducted in Senegal, designed to address one key question: What do farmers already understand about climate change?

This is a learning modules and exercises that Farmer Field School practitioners can use with farming communities for community-based adaptation planning.