Monitoring and Evaluation, adoption and impact assessment

Under this focus area, the SSIAU monitors the progress of icipe's research activities, and conducts economic, social, and environmental research studies needed to generate evidence to: (i) guide research prioritization and understand constraints to and incentives for faster adoption of technologies; and (ii) document the impacts of icipe research. This focus area has six priority objectives:

  • Conduct needs assessments and socio-economic situation analyses to inform R4D project design and to support technology innovations at the Centre level;
  • Carry out substantive ex-ante and ex-post studies, to guide resource and research prioritization, to provide feedback for policy makers, donors, and scientists, as well as inform policy choices for better targeting for the poor, women and the other vulnerable groups and for better diffusion of innovations;
  • Economic valuation of pollination services provided by managed honey bees and the wild bees and the impact of pollinator abundance and diversity, on crop productivity, food security and income of households;
  • Generate knowledge on the key drivers and barriers for adoption and scaling up adoption of new technologies;
  • Design (gender-sensitive) monitoring and evaluation methodologies and build capacity of research teams to implement M&E activities; and
  • Develop strategies and policy options to stimulate more widespread adoption of icipe's technologies. 

Publications

Kassie M., Marenya P., Tessema Y., Jaleta M., Zeng D., Erenstein O. and Rahut D. (2018) Measuring farm and market level economic impacts of improved maize production technologies in Ethiopia: Evidence from panel data. Journal of Agricultural Economics 69, 76–95. doi: 10.1111/1477-9552.12221.

Kassie M., Stage J., Diiro G., Muriithi B., Muricho G., Ledermann S.T., Pittchar J. O., Midega C. and Khan Z. (2018) Push-pull farming system in Kenya: Implications for economic and social welfare. Land Use Policy 77, 186–198.

Koppmair S., Kassie M. and Qaim M. (2017) The influence of farm input subsidies on the adoption of natural resource management technologies. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 61, 539–556. doi: 510.1111/1467-8489.12220.