Value chain research contributed substantially to scientific knowledge and demonstrated the benefit of a multidisciplinary systems approach.

This impact assessment outlines the strong, positive impacts on livelihoods and community resilience that ACIAR-funded soils projects had in post-tsunami Aceh Province.

This impact assessment reviews the outcomes and impacts of a project focused on strengthening the Fijian papaya industry, within the broader development goal of improving the livelihoods of rural people in Viti Levu. The project was found to have delivered benefits to both the Fijian and Australian papaya industries.

This report assesses the impact of 2 rice–shrimp farming projects and a mangrove forestry project in the Mekong Delta that were supported by ACIAR from the mid-1990s. These projects aimed to investigate and support the ongoing sustainability and profitability of non-monoculture shrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta.

As a result of its large population, China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of vegetables. The purpose of this assessment was to extend an earlier analysis by investigating the longer-term impacts of two ACIAR-funded projects. This report summarises the research procedures used, and the findings on integrated pest management impacts and factors that foster or constrain integrated pest management adoption.

This publication reports on a process to review identify, develop and apply impact assessment approaches that explore multiple impacts of complex agricultural research-for-development investments, including economic, social, environmental, policy and capacity impacts.

ACIAR research on sandalwood genetics and plantation management since 2002 has had a positive impact.

ACIAR research on conservation tillage and controlled traffic farming, between 1992 and 2003, had positive impact.

An impact assessment study of four ACIAR-funded projects that focused on citrus rootstock, scion and production improvement.

ACIAR investment accelerated the introduction of the greatly needed direct-seeding technology

This impact assessment study sought to understand the influence of two major aquaculture‑based livelihood projects through the lens of 40 mini-projects derived from the major projects. This novel approach to research and development delivery was a collaboration between ACIAR project leaders and stakeholders in Pacific island countries.

This impact assessment focused on two projects supporting tambak redevelopment in Aceh, after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. One project aimed to lift technical capacity of the Balai Perikanan Budidaya Air Payau (BPBAP) and the second worked in partnership with BPBAP to advance aquaculture rehabilitation. ACIAR teams undertook training of BPBAP staff to develop capacity and knowledge on rebuilding and improving the design of tambaks.

This impact assessment of giant clam research in the Indo-Pacific region is a valuable historical compendium of the ACIAR sponsored work undertaken over 25 years. The authors have drawn together a wide-ranging evaluation of the work from biological, ecological and socioeconomic perspectives. There is no doubt that the work has led to the establishment of a vast body of knowledge about giant clam biology, markets, and culturing techniques that has contributed to ongoing efforts to conserve the species and continued research capacity in the Indo-Pacific.

  Bilateral projects sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) typically fund activities across a spectrum, including human capacity building and the development of farm ready technologies, in pursuit of economic, social and environmental benefits. In the interests of better project design, IAS93 enquires about the impact of these investments through the assesment of three case studies.

This report contributes towards the focus on the social and policy dimensions of impact. The report has two major parts. First, a new framework for impact assessments is presented. The framework integrates two distinct literatures that link research with policy outcomes. Knowledge systems (Cash et al. 2003) and the research and policy for development (RAPID)literatures (Overseas Development Institute 2004) are proposed as tools to analyse how knowledge flows among different actors in development contexts.

Smallholder ADOPT is designed to provide an understanding of the technology adoption process, as part of the wider processes of agricultural innovation. This publication documents the development of Smallholder ADOPT, which started with a review of literature that gathered significant data on the factors influencing adoption in developing country settings.The development process was then progressed through a survey with users of the pilot version of Smallholder ADOPT, followed by workshops held in Ethiopia, Laos, India and Papua New Guinea.

  This report presents an impact evaluation of Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)–funded projects in the cocoa sector in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG). These projects were completed between 2009 and 2015, so most of this evaluation is an analysis of potential outcomes.

This report considers, from an impact assessment perspective, the potential effects of private sector involvement in ACIAR – funded research projects. This report provides a broad framework for thinking through the potential impacts of private sector engagement. It also considers recent literature in the field and a case study of recent ACIAR-funded projects on cocoa research, which involved considerable private sector participation.

This impact assessment study has selected four projects, which were designed to improve outcomes for women and families who are smallholder farmers growing crops and raising cattle in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China, where the challenges of land degradation, access to water and poor agricultural practices result in low crop productivity and poor animal condition.  

For the past 30 years, ACIAR has funded research aimed at controlling Newcastle disease in village chickens. In Africa, the Australian Government has contributed around $10.8 million to Newcastle disease control projects, about $1.1 million of which has been contributed by ACIAR. This report estimates total net benefits to Africa of around $479 million, which amounts to a benefit of around $60 for every dollar spent.

This report assesses the impact of three ACIAR projects on wheat and maize in Afghanistan. An initial desktop analysis was augmented with a detailed survey of farmers in Afghanistan, undertaken by in-country non-government organisations.

  This study reports the findings of a review of 27 Impact Assessment Series reports (covering 103 bilateral research projects) published by ACIAR since 2005. This is the second ACIAR review of returns from bilateral investments, and confirms that returns are high. A few research areas, such as use of Australian trees in Indonesia, pig breeding in Vietnam, and grain storage in the Philippines, stood out as being particularly successful.

Many impact assessments focus on estimating net economic benefits from a program, and identifying a causal relationship between the impact and the intervention. Natural resource management research, however, operates under dynamic, complex and unpredictable conditions, and is likely to be a contributory cause rather than the sole cause of program results.