Impact Pathways

Small-scale Farmer Innovation: How Agricultural Research Works Together with Farmers

MISEREOR, Prolinnova and McKnight Foundation, in collaboration with the editors of WELT-SICHTEN have recently published a dossier in German on small-scale farmer innovation (Baeuerliche Innovation). The English translation is now finished and available here. A farmer innovation in Burkina Faso showing how onions are stored to provide ventilation and protect the crop from heat “The articles …

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Agricultural Research’s Three Pathways to Impact

I have worked with the concept of ‘impact pathways’, or ‘theories of change’ for nearly 20 years. Perhaps the best advice I have received in this time is that theory of change should tell a good story.  A good story draws you in, it is compelling because it is about real people in real places. We come …

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