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New study: CGIAR innovations reach nearly 80% of Ethiopia’s rural households

  1. NewsletterHappenings In-house version 12 November 2020, No.1880 New study: CGIAR innovations reach nearly 80% of Ethiopia’s rural households Originally published on CGIAR An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations in Ethiopia over the past 20 years. The study represents the culmination of years of work by the independent CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA)[1], together with the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency (CSA) and the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team, to develop and test a country-level approach to assessing adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations using national surveys. Piloting this new approach for the first time in Ethiopia, a CGIAR research hotspot, the study finds that a sample of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations have potentially reached 11 million rural Ethiopian households — nearly 80 percent of all rural households in the country — with substantial adoption among poor smallholders, women and youth. Usman Kadir and his family are growing maize and wheat varieties suitable for drought- and disease-affected areas in Ethiopia. Photo: A Habtamu, ILRI To document the reach of CGIAR-related innovations, SPIA started with a stocktake of all such innovations disseminated in Ethiopia in the period 1999–2019. Consultations with CGIAR and national stakeholders revealed 52 different innovations across the domains of animal agriculture, crop germplasm improvement, and natural resource management (NRM), and 26 instances of policy influence. Working with partners LSMS and CSA, 18 shortlisted innovations were integrated into nationally representative household surveys in 2016 and 2019, which were then used to track uptake. CGIAR’s significant contribution to Ethiopia’s agricultural development CGIAR innovations have reached between 4.1 and 11 million Ethiopian households, the study found, evidence of CGIAR’s broad contribution to Ethiopia’s agricultural development. The importance of CGIAR research for
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