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Item SPIA Uganda Report 2025: Agricultural Diversity Under Stress(Report, 2025-05-21) Stevenson, James R.; Macours, K.SPIA Uganda Report 2025 – Agricultural Diversity Under Stress This report offers an in-depth assessment of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations in Uganda. It presents findings from extensive research on six major improved crop varieties—banana, maize, sweetpotato, beans, cassava, and groundnut—as well as other innovations, including livestock and natural resource management practices. The study situates these findings within the broader context of Uganda’s agricultural sector, highlighting key dynamics, policy frameworks, and overarching trends. The report is the result of a sustained and collaborative effort among multiple partners: the CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAIFF), and CGIAR researchers. This partnership supported the collection of nationally representative data under the Uganda Household Integrated Surveys (UHIS), a large-scale panel survey conducted by UBOS with technical assistance from the World Bank LSMS team.Item SPIA Brief Bangladesh Report 2025(Brief, 2025-05-19) Stevenson, James R.This two-page brief presents results from the first round of DNA fingerprinting conducted in Bangladesh. Since its independence in 1970, Bangladesh has accessed numerous new agricultural technologies, with CGIAR centers such as IRRI, CIMMYT, CIP, IFPRI, CIAT, ILRI, and IWMI focusing on rice production to ensure food security—a persistent challenge in this country. Economic growth has risen alongside rice yields (the major adoption crop) and wages, although there has been a notable shift from agricultural work to salaried employment, particularly from 2018 to 2024, with agricultural participation dropping from 58.9% to 54.5%. The most significant adoption results are seen in the aquaculture sector, particularly with the G3 rohu variety. In addition, the Axial Flow Pump (AFP) stands out as a key innovation under CGIAR's mechanization initiatives in Bangladesh.Item Presentations Vietnam Event(Presentation, 2025-03) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem SPIA Vietnam Report: Global Ambitions, Sustainable Pathways(Brief, 2025-03) Visaria, Sujata; Kosmowski, FredericItem Overview CGIAR SPIA Country Studies(Presentation, 2025-03-07) Stevenson, James R.Item SPIA Uganda Report 2025: Agricultural Diversity Under Stress(Presentation, 2025-03-07) Macours, KarenItem The Dynamics of CGIAR Innovations in Uganda(Presentation, 2025-03-07) Bevis, L.; Michler, J.Item SPIA Uganda Report 2025: Agricultural Diversity Under Stress(Report, 2025-03) Ilukor, J.; Letaa, E.; Khanal, A.; Barros, J.; Taye, L; Gimode, D.; Ponzini, G.; Asea, G.; Ssennono, V.; Stevenson, James R.; Lybbert, T.; Macours, K.First Version, SPIA Uganda Report 2025: Agricultural Diversity Under StressItem SPIA Uganda Report 2025: Agricultural Diversity Under Stress(Brief, 2025-03) Stevenson, James R.; Macours, K.Item SPIA Uganda Report 2025: Agricultural Diversity Under Stress(Brief, 2025-03) Stevenson, James R.This four-page brief highlights and summarizes the key messages, methods, and main results of the extensive and sustained collaboration among the following partners: CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study team (LSMS), Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS), NARO, MAIFF, and CGIAR researchers. The focus is on six major crops: maize, cassava, banana, beans, sweet potato, and groundnuts.Item Open call for accountability and learning impact studies(Internal Document, 2025-02) Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem SPIA Viet Nam Report 2024: Global Ambitions, Sustainable Pathways(Report, 2025-01) Kosmowski, Frederic; Chavez, Simon; Thanh Binh Le; Ha Thu Nguyen; Phuong Nguyen; Gimode, Davis; Biradavolu, Monica; Pelletier, Johanne; Stevenson, James R.; Visaria, SujataThe report provides a detailed assessment of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations in Viet Nam, building on a previous SPIA study. The study (LINK: https://iaes.cgiar.org/spia/publications/preliminary-insights-adoption-cgiar-related-agricultural-innovations-vietnam) contextualizes Viet Nam’s rapid economic growth and agricultural transformation, emphasizing its strategic importance to CGIAR. Covering diverse domains such as aquaculture, breeding, climate adaptation, mechanization, and sustainable intensification, the research identifies 78 innovations, and 30 policy contributions linked to CGIAR research from 2003 to 2023. Focusing on 19 innovations with high adoption potential, the study employs rigorous methodologies, including data integration with the Viet Nam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS), DNA fingerprinting, and geospatial analysis, to quantify adoption rates and profile adopters' socioeconomic characteristics. Among these innovations, 10 were strongly attributed to CGIAR research. The report offers a comprehensive overview of CGIAR’s impact in Viet Nam, focusing on the geographic reach and beneficiaries of its innovations. While significant heterogeneity exists among adopting households, the analysis reveals key patterns, such as the strong association of CGIAR innovations with the rice export sector, the cassava starch industry, and aquaculture markets. It is estimated that 3.7 and 3.9 million Vietnamese households have been reached, indicating a significant potential impact on rural communities and underscoring the enduring influence of CGIAR’s work in Viet Nam. The findings from this study not only highlight CGIAR’s role in Viet Nam’s agricultural sector but also lay a foundation for continuing efforts to monitor, evaluate, and enhance the reach of agricultural innovations in the years to come.Item SPIA Ethiopia Report 2024: Building Resilience to Shocks(Report, 2024-12-19) Alemu, Solomon; Ambel, Alemayehu; Khanal, Amit; Kosmowski, Frederic; Stevenson, James R.; Taye, Lemi; Tsegay, Asmelash; Macours, KarenSince the first SPIA country study report on Ethiopia (Shining a Brighter Light: Comprehensive Evidence on Adoption and Diffusion of CGIAR-Related Innovations in Ethiopia (Kosmowski, F., et al., 2020)) the country has experienced a protracted civil conflict, repeated years of drought, a food security crisis, and the disruptions and shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this new report, we provide a unique national-level panel data perspective on the dynamic changes in the reach of agricultural innovations during these challenging times, leveraging the same nationally representative survey approach as we used in the 2020 report. This allows us to look at changes in the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations over the period 2018/19 to 2021/22.Item SPIA Briefing Note: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation(Brief, 2024-12-04) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem SPIA Briefing Note: Environmental Externalities of Agricultural Intensification(Brief, 2024-12-04) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem SPIA Briefing Note: CGIAR Research on Mechanization(Brief, 2024-12-04) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem SPIA Briefing Note: Targeting of Agricultural Technologies(Brief, 2024-12-04) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem SPIA Briefing Note: SPIA Country Studies(Brief, 2024-12-04) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact AssessmentItem Stocktake document - SPIA Ethiopia Report(Dataset, 2024-11-25) SPIASPIA country-level stocktake of CGIAR-related innovations in Ethiopia, November 2024 version.Item SPIA Fest 2024: Assessing the impacts of international agricultural research: New methods, rigorous evidence, better decisions(Internal Document, 2024-09) CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment