Managing and implementing impact evaluations: lessons from 3ie agricultural innovation grants

„ Let the implementers’ and policymakers’ questions drive the methods, rather than the other way around. The World Bank’s World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development1 highlighted the importance of the agriculture sector in international development. Yet, despite the availability of agricultural technologies, few smallholder farmers in developing economies adopt new inputs and practices. One of the factors preventing more productive approaches from being adopted among rural farmers is the lack of effective knowledge dissemination about such practices. Farmers also face different constraints along the value chain, including lack of financial resources and inadequate infrastructures or market inefficiencies, which can restrain farmers’ abilities to increase productivity, and subsequent well-being.