ArticleThe European journal of development research2023
Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus' Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs.
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- Improving annotation, access, and comparison of nutritional composition data for underutilized crops.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
- The Effects of Biofortified Cowpeas on Iron, Glucose, and Lipid Metabolism in Rats Fed a High-Fat/High-Sugar Diet.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2026Article
- Biofortified Sweet Potato Submitted to Different Domestic Cooking Processes: Impact on β-Carotene Retention and Antioxidant Capacity.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- The Adoption of Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: the Public's Current Perception, the Regulatory Obstacles, and Ethical Challenges.GM crops & food · 2024Review
- Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus' Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs.The European journal of development research · 2023Article
- Role of socio-economic research in developing, delivering and scaling new crop varieties: the case of staple crop biofortification.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
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Abstract
Improving policies-broadly defined-is at the heart of the structural transformation agenda. This paper describes the use of a new evaluation method-outcome trajectory evaluation (OTE), based on both evaluation and policy process theory-to explore the influence of HarvestPlus, a large and complex research for development program focused on improving nutrition, on a specific policy outcome, namely the establishment of biofortification crop breeding programs in national agricultural research institutes in Bangladesh, India, and Rwanda. The findings support claims of significant HarvestPlus contributions while also raising issues that need to be monitored to ensure sustainability. The paper also discusses the pros and cons of the OTE approach in terms of methodological rigor and the accumulation of learning from one evaluation to the next.
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