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Impact Assessment of ICRISAT Village Level Studies: 1975 to 2013. An independent external review commissioned by ICRISAT

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Title Impact Assessment of ICRISAT Village Level Studies: 1975 to 2013. An independent external review commissioned by ICRISAT
 
Creator Mullen, J D
 
Subject Impact Assessment
Village Level Studies
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Village Dynamics Studies
 
Description The village level studies (VLS) program was identified as one of ICRISAT’s 16 jewels in 2012 (40th
anniversary). The program began in 1975 with 240 households in two villages in each of the three
regions in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of India. In 1980, four more villages were added, resulting in a
total of 400 households. A repeat survey was carried out in these villages in 1989. Another 10 villages
(250 households) in Burkina Faso and Niger were studied in the 1980s and in late 2000s. During
2001–2008, the household survey was carried out in six villages in India. In 2009, the VLS Project was
rejuvenated, renamed as the VDSA (Village Dynamics in South Asia) project, and expanded to cover
1824 households in 42 villages in six states of SAT in India, three states in east India and 11 districts
in Bangladesh. Other partners in the project included the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) institutes (National Centre for Agricultural
Economics and Policy Research—NCAP, New Delhi; ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna;
Directorate of Water Management--DWM, Bhubaneswar) of India, and other research organizations
and state agricultural universities in India and Bangladesh. From 2009 onwards, the funding for the
expanded project came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
There have been many paths by which the resources used in the VLS and VDSA projects
complemented with resources from partners have achieved the goal of enhancing the welfare of
rural households and the village economies in South Asia - by ‘raising the voices of the poor’ in the
words of the goal of the VDSA project. Many benefits, ‘spillovers’, have also flowed to users around
the world...
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2016
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9760/1/2016-175%20Imp%20Assess%20ICRISAT%20VLS%20Uttam.pdf
Mullen, J D (2016) Impact Assessment of ICRISAT Village Level Studies: 1975 to 2013. An independent external review commissioned by ICRISAT. Technical Report. ICRISAT, Patancheru.