In recent years and especially since the COP - 21 climate agreement reached in Paris last year, efforts to mitigate climate change accelerate. All sectors need to contribute in order to achieve the well below 2 degree climate target. The agricultural sector is relevant for climate change in various ways. Like the agricultural sector, the transport ...
Development support must be able to prove its effectiveness. Impact evaluation is a way to generate this information. The thesis is about the design of these impact evaluations and how research methods can be combined to obtain credible evidence on effectiveness. It contrasts two approaches to impact evaluation design, ‘randomistas’ (Does it work?)...
Cotton production in Benin, West Africa, is intertwined with colonialism, which contributed to the transformation of the crop’s production system from traditional to modern. Throughout the years, the importance of the crop for the stakeholders varied. The last decades have witnessed a growing interest in cotton of farmers, businessmen, and the Stat...
De biologische sector heeft sinds mei 2011 een ketenorganisatie: Bionext. Met de gekozen naam drukt de sector uit dat ze een volgende ontwikkelingsfase is ingegaan. ‘Tien jaar lang heeft de overheid ons via beleid en met financiering van organisaties en projecten ondersteund’, zegt Arjan Monteny. ‘Nu gaan we op eigen kracht verder.’ Bavo van den Id...
Although the 2012 UN International Year of Cooperatives is half‑way through, it has already contributed much to showing the importance of farmers’ organisations. Collective action by farmers is very much needed, especially when farms are (or will become) too small to be attractive to trading partners.
