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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Innovation for Agribusiness (InovAgro) Project Impact Evaluation Results Dissemination Workshop

October 28, 2021

  • 2:00 – 3:30 pm (Africa/Maputo)
  • 8:00 – 9:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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Using a Market System Development (MSD) approach, the InovAgro project – funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by Development Alternative Initiatives (DAI) Europe in partnership with COWI Mozambique – aims at increasing incomes and economic security for poor men and women smallholder farmers in Northern Mozambique through improved agricultural productivity and enhanced connectedness to market systems of selected high-potential value chains, focused on five value chains (maize, soya beans, groundnuts, sesame, and pigeon peas).

In 2014, SDC in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) launched a scientific impact evaluation of the development intervention “Innovation for Agribusiness” on households and markets. The impact evaluation study was conducted by IFPRI, employing three rounds of household-level panel data (2015 baseline survey, 2017 midline survey, and 2019 endline survey); Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with local stakeholders, including market actors and local authorities, were complemented with two rounds of geo-spatial data (2017 and 2019). Geo-spatial data enabled the study team to categorize all sampled households into four groups: (1) MSD beneficiary – InovAgro facilitated; (2) MSD beneficiary – Non-InovAgro facilitated; (3) Non-MSD beneficiary; and (4) non-beneficiary (control households).

This workshop will disseminate the results of the impact evaluation of the InovAgro project’s interventions which will reflect on both intended and unintended effects of the interventions.

Opening Remarks

  • Steven Geiger, Head of economic development domain, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Mozambique

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