Click on the link below to view the webinar by Fanny Howland and Katherine Quintero from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT on 9 April, entitled 1000FARMS: Scaling the Use of Tricot Data for Breeding Decisions – An Outcome Study.
Presenter Bios: Dr. Fanny Howland holds a doctorate in anthropology of development and is based at the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. Her research focuses on gender, policy analysis, discourse and perception analysis, and climate change.
Katherine Quintero is an Economist and Master’s candidate in Rural Development. At the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT she is a member of the Applied Economics and Impact Evaluation team working on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Impact (MELIA).
Contact Fanny at f.c.howland@cgiar.org and Katherine at d.quintero@cgiar.org
Summary of presentation: Fanny and Katherine shared their qualitative theory-based evaluation to assess the contribution of the 1000FARMS project to scaling the use of the tricot approach for breeding decisions in targeted countries in Africa — Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda — and in the non-targeted country of Haiti. Using online surveys, secondary sources and semi-structured interviews, the study documented increased levels of awareness, knowledge and use of tricot data among breeders, alongside broadly positive attitudes toward the approach. They found that 1000FARMS has contributed to scaling the tricot approach in combination with other actors in Ghana and Uganda, while evidence was insufficient to establish a causal mechanism in Ethiopia and Haiti. The presentation also identified perceived enabling and hindering factors reported by informants, offering lessons learned for future scaling efforts.
