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TOPIC AREAS: Agriculture
Our work in this sector includes evaluations of a number of interventions related to agriculture, including farmer training, access to credit, irrigation, and support to regional associations.
Examples of Projects
- Impact Evaluation of Water-to-Market Activities, Irrigation Infrastructure, and Roads in Armenia. Mathematica designed and implemented an evaluation of several agriculture related initiatives led by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Armenia to determine their effectiveness in improving the living conditions of rural households. The initiatives involved rehabilitating irrigation infrastructure and rural roads and included a training for farmers to enable them to make good use of improved irrigation and other related water-to-market activities. Read more.
- Impact Evaluation Services for Access to Agricultural Finance, Farmer Training, and Irrigation Compact Activities in Moldova. The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Compact with the Republic of Moldova includes several initiatives designed to combat poverty and to stimulate economic growth, especially in rural areas. Mathematica's evaluation focuses on three compact activities: access to agricultural finance, irrigation sector reform and centralized irrigation systems rehabilitation, and the farmer training component of the Growing High-Value Agriculture Sales or Agricultural Competitiveness and Enterprise Development activity.
- Impact Evaluation of Education, Training, and Productive Development in El Salvador. Mathematica has designed and implemented the evaluation of  a human and productive development initiative implemented by the government of El Salvador together with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Over the past five years, we have refined the evaluation methodology, monitored and advised MCC on the evaluation implementation plan, finalized the evaluation design, designed and overseen quantitative and qualitative data collection and conducted analysis and reporting. Read more.
- Impact Evaluation of the Land Tenure, Finance, and Agricultural Business Investment Compact Activities for Madagascar. The Millennium Challenge Corporation sponsored the Millennium Challenge Account Madagascar Compact in order to increase household income and land productivity in five intervention zones. Mathematica designed a rigorous ex post evaluation of the project components to determine their ultimate impact on both intermediate and long-term outcomes.Â
- Cocoa Livelihoods Program Evaluation and Baseline Data Collection (Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon).The Cocoa Livelihoods Program provides a range of interventions to increase the incomes of households in the cocoa-producing areas of five West and Central African countries. During the first year of the evaluation, the study design was finalized with all stakeholders. Mathematica collected baseline data in four of the five program countries on four key outcomes: cocoa production and productivity, income, schooling, and nutrition. The baseline memo assessed the comparability of the treatment and control groups and informed gender analyses of interest to the World Cocoa Foundation.