Impact assessment program

Results of a Social and Economic Impact Assessment of Integrated Pest Management Strategies in Brassica Vegetable Crops in China

Publication Code: 

WP47

Author(s): 

Liu Yonggong and Xue Shu
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The purpose of this assessment was to extend an earlier analysis by investigating the longer-term impacts of two ACIAR-funded projects

Determining international agricultural research priorities

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP37

Author(s): 

A S G Lubulwa, K Menz, D H White, P Chudleigh, S McMeniman & D Hill
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ACIAR was established in 1982 as a statutory authority within the Commonwealth Government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Impact assessments of forty-nine Thailand/Australia collaborative projects funded by ACIAR during 1983-1995

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP38

Author(s): 

S Isvalnonda, S Praneetvatakul, C Sangkapituk, A Sattarasart, C Singhaprecha, P Sirisupluxana
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There is strong evidence that agricultural research is an important source of growth in agriculture, resulting in economic and environmental benefits

Developing forage technologies with smallholder farmers: how to monitor and evaluate impacts

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP41

Author(s): 

R Cramb & T Purcell
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Electronic Version onlyThe Forages for Smallholder Project (FSP) is a participatory research program in Southeast Asia that commenced in 1995

Research capacity and general community impacts of five ACIAR-sponsored projects

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP34

Author(s): 

R G Mauldon
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This small study is a second stage of a program of assessments being undertaken of the research capacity and community impact of bilateral projects sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) that were completed some five years previously

Research capacity and general community impacts of five ACIAR-sponsored projects

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP36

Author(s): 

Winston Bates
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This report is the third resulting from a program of assessments being undertaken of impacts of ACIAR projects that were completed some five years previously

Understanding the socioeconomic significance of livestock disease with particular reference to surra (trypanosomiasis) in selected communities in Eastern Indonesia

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP46

Author(s): 

Asia Research Centre Murdoch University
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This project was designed to provide preliminary information about the cultural, social, political and economic context of livestock disease in Indonesia, and to determine the likely effect on the transfer to Indonesian institutions

The dual approach to research evaluation: a simplified empirical illustration

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP39

Author(s): 

D Hill, C O'Donnell, R Piggott & G Griffith
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In this paper, the dual approach to ex ante research evaluation in a multiple-input, multiplt-output industry is explained and demonstrated

Poverty alleviation through agricultural research: the ACIAR experience

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP35

Author(s): 

K Menz, G Lubulwa & P Lal
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A recent external review of ACIAR (Nairn et al 1998) recommended (p 42) that ACIAR should more effectively communicate the way in which the benefits flow from ACIAR projects to ultimately achieve poverty alleviation

Collect, access and use of agricultural statistics in the Pacific Islands

Publication Code: 

IAP-WP45

Author(s): 

Peter Walton
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Informal discussions among SPC staff, many of whom have considerable experience of working in the Pacific Islands, suggested that there were problems with accessing and using agricultural statistical information in the region