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Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies
The concern for the well-being of land is often directly related to one’s proximity to the land, be it physically, economically or culturally. Land is more precious if one’s livelihood depend on it immediately than if one ...
A Bayesian Assessment of Productivity and Risks to Achieve target Yields from Improved Chickpea and Mung Bean Varieties Using On-Farm Trials in Afghanistan
Legumes are essential to meet nutrition need of growing population in Afghanistan but have low productivity under the farmer practices. With an aim to introduce improved varieties of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and mung ...
Results-based Monitoring & Evaluation System: Defining the Global Concept
This document presents the results-based Monitoring and Evaluation System (M&ES) of the Programs and Organizations, adopting the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Platform and it provides the staff of theses Programs ...
Mapping Suitable Areas for Growing Pulses in Rice-Fallows using Multi-Criteria Spatial Decisions
Food legumes (Pulses) play an important role in ensuring food and nutritional as well environmental security through crop diversication and sustainable intensification in India and elsewhere. India imports nearly 4-5 ...
Restoration of Degraded Lands in Mali: a review on lessons learnt and opportunities for scaling
The rapid growing population and the need of economic development is leading to a number of environmental issues, notably forest and degradation of land, resource depletion (water, mineral, forest), environmental degradation, ...
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL): Envisioning an Optimal Data Flow to achieve Development Outcomes
Impact in agricultural research is strictly related to the data flow quality within research for development institutions. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (or Development Outcomes) is the final stage of the ...
Technical efficiency of wheat farmers and options for minimizing yield gaps in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a net importer of wheat which is the staple food in the country. In order to improve the levels of food
sufficiency, prevailing large yield gaps in wheat need to be reduced. This study assessed the reasons/factors ...
A Web-based Platform for Enhancing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in Research for Development - Toward Achieving Development Outcomes
Achieving efficiency in large and complex research for development programs (R4D) is a significant
challenge. In 2015, as a response to the lack of a shared monitoring and evaluation system for CGIAR
Research Programs ...
Open Access and Open Data at CGIAR: Challenges and Solutions
CGIAR is a global research partnership of 15 geographically and scientifically diverse
Centers dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and
improving natural resource management. The Centers ...