Learning from AgResults

AgResults learning takes two forms:

  1. Learning generated from the experience of AgResults in designing and implementing projects;
  2. Learning generated from the External Evaluator in its independent ongoing review of AgResults projects.

Since 2013, AgResults has developed a variety of knowledge products, which can be found in the Learning Library below. The library is searchable by keyword and by a specific AgResults project, using the "All Tags" drop-down box.

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document Evaluator’s Sustainability Assessment: Vietnam GHG Emissions Reduction Challenge Project

In Learning Library Tagged in Evaluator, Learning Library, Vietnam Emissions 90 downloads

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AgResults Vietnam Sustainability Assessment Report Final.docx

Two years’ after the project’s conclusion, Evaluators found that several companies and many farmers were continuing to use (with some adaptation) rice production systems that had been introduced by companies during the competition. Farmers were more likely to use those systems if they received continuing support from the company and if water management systems were reliable.

document Evaluator’s Gender Assessment: Tanzania Dairy Productivity Project Popular

In Learning Library Tagged in Evaluator, Learning Library, Tanzania Dairy 121 downloads

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AgResults Tanzania Dairy Project Gender Assessment.docx

This assessment, conducted during project implementation, found significant diversity in the roles men and women play in households’ dairy activities, with female farmers often less well positioned than males to achieve and benefit from dairy intensification. While the project’s design offsets some risk of negative outcomes to women, payment-for-results projects have limited leeway to promote gender equity.

pdf Lessons Learned Article: Pay for Results’ Role in Transforming Tanzania's Dairy Input Supplier Model Popular

In Learning Library Tagged in Learning Library, Tanzania Dairy 127 downloads

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Lessons Learned Article_Pay for Results’ Role in Transforming Tanzania's Dairy Input Supplier Model.pdf

Lessons Learned Article: Pay for Results’ Role in Transforming Tanzania's Dairy Input Supplier Model

The AgResults Tanzania Dairy Challenge Project was established to incentivize private sector input suppliers to raise awareness and educate smallholder farmers on the value of adopting productivity-increasing input bundles to enhance production and strengthen dairy-based livelihoods. This Lessons Learned article explores how the project has already made an impactful shift in the dairy input supplier model and market, strengthening SHF’s demand for improved inputs.

pdf Presentation: Prize Competitions to Drive Livestock Productivity Popular

In Learning Library Tagged in Brucellosis (Global), Learning Library 853 downloads

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GASL 2019 Parallel Session_final.pdf

Presentation: Prize Competitions to Drive Livestock Productivity

This presentation from the 2019 Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL) Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) meeting introduces AgResults' framework, which uses prize competitions to encourage the private sector to overcome market challenges. The World Bank and AgResults Secretariat share lessons from designing and implementing competitions to strengthen livestock health and productivity: a global Brucellosis vaccine competition, a vaccine competition to address Foot and Mouth Disease in Eastern Africa, and a Tanzania-based competition to boost dairy productivity.