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The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) has recently released “Shining a Brighter Light: Comprehensive Evidence on Adoption and Diffusion of CGIAR-Related Innovations in Ethiopia”, a report that synthesizes a 5-year collaboration with the Central Statistics Agency and the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), World Bank team. Monitoring progress in agriculture requires evidence on innovations and their adoptions. To better guide

Women in smallholder farm households do much of the work on roots, tubers and bananas. They produce and process the crops, but they don’t always get an equitable share of any profits that ensue. For that reason, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) incorporated gender considerations in its work from the start. “We know that innovations

In every step of commercial supply chains, purchasers look to standards to ensure that suppliers are providing valid products and services. Standards are essential for buyers to know what they are getting and to document transactions so that users further along the value chain know where their product has originated. Standards allow for smooth transactions of goods, and ultimately protect the consumer.

Gender-inclusive participation in the sciences allows both men and women to fully benefit from advancements in science and technology. The past year revealed both the interconnectedness of and the challenges facing the global community. As scientists rushed to create a vaccine, COVID-19 claimed lives and stalled economies. While the pandemic dominated global headlines throughout 2020, climate change remained an

Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fisheries extension, economics, and marketing at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Fregene facilitates the delivery of new technologies to aquaculture producers, aiming to increase local production of aquatic foods, improve household nutrition, and create job opportunities for women and youth. In her role, she manages interventions

Quennie Vi Rizaldo is a Human Nutrition Specialist at WorldFish collaborating on the USAID-funded Fish For Livelihoods project to support small-scale aquaculture farmers and fishers in Myanmar. Her research supports improved nutritional outcomes in aquatic foods systems through use of nutrition-sensitive approaches, including the integration of diverse vegetable crops alongside farmed fish in homestead ponds. In her role, Rizaldo specializes

On 4th November 2020, SPIA issued a small grant call for proposals on the topic of Agricultural innovations in Ethiopia. Building on the partnership with the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia (CSA) and the LSMS-ISA team at the World Bank, the call aimed to identify PhD or Master’s students and early-career researchers as grant recipients to analyze the datasets of the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESS),

BY LORI BEAMAN, SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ, NIALL KELEHER AND JEREMY MAGRUDER Around the world, youth play sports wherever there is enough space to kick a ball or swing a bat: On fields, beaches, empty streets, or vacant lots. Few activities capture the excitement, energy, and imagination of youth as much as sports. Since the early 2000s, enthusiasm has grown for using