Presentation during IITA R4D week 2015 (23 - 27 Nov. 2015). By: Victor Manyong .

1. www.iita.orgA member of CGIAR consortium
Introduction to social science
Victor Manyong
24th November 2015
(R4D Week 2015)

2. IITA Refreshed Strategy
‘To lift over 11.6 million Africans out of
poverty and turn 7.5 million ha of land
into sustainable use’

3. IITA Products and KPI Poverty
IITA innovations
Improved
Germplasm
GAP & IPMSLU
Innovations
Knowledge,
PH, IPs, …
Crop Improvement
&
Biotechnology
Natural
Resource
Management
Social
Science &
Agribusiness
Plant
Productio
n & Plant
Health
IITA Goals
EXPOSURE & ADOPTION

4. Research on Social Science & Agribiz:
Guiding Framework
Ex ante impact
(Priority setting, Baseline studies,
Foresight modeling)
Evaluation
(technical, economic,
social, environmental)
Adoption
(Adoption studies)
Ex post impact
(e.g. Economic returns,
KPI-Poverty studies)
Situation Analysis
INNOVATION
GENERATION
(Germplasm, SLU,
Posthvst, IPM, IP..)
SCALING OUT
DISSEMINATIONSCALING UP
DISSEMINATION

5. Ex ante impact
Evaluation
Adoption
Ex post impact
Situation Analysis
INNOVATION
GENERATION
SCALING OUT
DISSEMINATION
SCALING UP
DISSEMINATION
PoliciesClimate change
Institutions
Markets
Other Factors

6. Ex ante impact
Evaluation
Adoption
Ex post impact
Situation Analysis
INNOVATION
GENERATION
SCALING OUT
DISSEMINATION
SCALING UP
DISSEMINATION
Social Science Research Strategy, 2012-2020:
Six (6) Objectives
O1: Ex ante impact
assessment for priority
setting and future
plausible scenarios
O2: Technology
evaluation, improved
understanding of the
dynamics of livelihood
strategies and pathways
out of poverty
O3: Adoption of
technological,
institutional and policy
innovations (gender)
O5: Scaling methods for
improved targeting of
technologies to increase
impact
O6: New methods for ex
post impact assessment
and impact of technologies
documented
O4: Agricultural input & output,
policy and institutional
arrangements for increased
market participation &
commercialization

7. Social Science Session
Today
• Part I: Oral presentations with 5 papers on the SS strategy
– Topics chosen from 2015 publications but one
– Speakers: Senior and junior scientists
== Time for presentation: 15 minutes each

8. Social Science Session
Today: Part I (Cont)
• Part I: Oral presentations with 5 papers on the SS strategy
– Topics chosen from 2015 publications but one
– Speakers: Senior and junior scientists
== Time for presentation: 15 minutes each
Ex ante impact
assessment of GMB BXW
(PLoS ONE, 2015) (Obj1)
Multi-stakeholder
platforms (Scaling
strategies to increase
impact) (Exp Agric, 2015 &
Agr Syst, in press) (Obj 5)
Gender (Adoption of
innovations) (JFAE, 2015)
(Obj 3)
Policy (Agricultural markets,
policy and institutional
arrangements) (Obj 4)
Ex-post impact (Ex post
impact assessment) (JF,
2015) (Obj 6)

9. Social Science Session
Today
• Part II: Poster session with 25 posters
– Published and yet to be published papers
– Approaches: quantitative, qualitative or both
– Various CRPs and hubs
– Speakers: Senior and junior scientists and postgraduate
students
== Shorter poster presentation (1 minute each) in Plenary
followed by Poster discussion

10. IITA Social Science and
Agribusiness Scientists
 Across CRPs
 Geographic location
5
6
10
18
39
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
SA CA EA WA Total
 Source of Funds
29%
71%
100%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
W1&2 W3 Total
 Economists, rural
sociologists, anthropologists,
political scientists

11. THANK YOU