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A strong agriculture sector is essential to economic development, and it is a pathway to increased income and poverty reduction for tens of millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. Mathematica is studying solutions to many persistent constraints to agriculture development—including scarce water supplies, climate change, insecure land access, barriers to market access, and insufficient expertise to operate farms as profitable businesses.

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Burkina Faso: Evaluation of the Agriculture Development Project

Mathematica is conducting an evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Agriculture Development Project, an irrigation infrastructure and technical assistance intervention carried out from 2009–2014 in Burkina Faso.

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International Conservation and Agriculture Strategy Evaluation Design and Learning

In 2016, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation established a strategy in the area of Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation (ALC). As the foundation’s ALC learning partner, Mathematica helped to develop and operationalize a monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan to shape the strategy.

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