Recently, two studies supported by the MRR Innovation Lab have measured the impact of agricultural interventions after their end. One, in Bangladesh, is structured as a traditional ex-post evaluation that measures the impact of a program that was designed with a randomly selected treatment group. The other, in Uganda, takes a novel approach in measuring the effect of program end on groups randomly selected for phaseout.
New AMA Innovation Lab research shows that promoting low-cost but advanced farming methods through agricultural extension can significantly increase food security and resilience, especially when the higher cost of improved inputs keeps them out of reach.
Economist Stephen C. Smith discusses how a number of water constraints have the greatest impacts on women and children living in poverty, and how irrigation can make a difference.
How long should a development intervention run? For a BRAC program for women farmers in eastern Uganda, that decision was made by the amount of funding it would have.
Researcher Jozefina Kalaj describes how a drip irrigation project in Senegal made farming easier. The first onion crop using the drip irrigation system was the best harvest farmers had ever had.
On June 28, 2017, the World Bank Blog featured an AMA Innovation Lab project in Uganda that shows a temporary subsidy can have a long-term impact for small-scale farmers.
