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CIAT in Perspective
1999-2000

Anatomy of Impact

Contents

Perspective in Practice

• Anatomy of Impact: Director General’s Message
• An energetic research mix
• Farmers as researchers
• Strategies for impact
• A Donor View of Impact: Interview with Andrew Bennett, DFID, UK

From Output to Outcome

• The winding road to impact
• The attribution gap
• Getting from R to D
• Seeds and beyond
• Economic analysis of impact
• Mapping impact

The Greening of Agriculture

• Rice growers with green attitude
• Know your enemy
• Beans with a nose for Phosphorus
• Soil conservation through participation
• Tithonia: A low-cost nutrient trap
• Best-bet green manures for Uganda
• A farmer’s repertoire of soil management methods
• Reversing soil degradation in Africa

Nurturing the Land

• Participatory land-use planning
• Tracking greenhouse gases
• Forest margins in the balance

Linking Farmers to Markets

• Preserving the cash potential of beans
• Teasing out the value of disease resistance
• Biotechnology: A shortcut to impact
• Kenya’s not-so-common beans
• Building farmers’ assets in Southeast Asia
• New markets for cassava
• Prospecting for markets

The Power of Perspective