IPM Farmer Field Schools

Contents

Summary

1. Introduction

2. Methodological aspects of impact evaluation

2.1 Efforts to develop a conceptual framework
2.2 Defining impact
2.3 Who defines impact
2.4 Measuring impact

3. Results of the case studies

3.1 Indonesia
3.2 Elsewhere in Asia
3.3 Other Regions

4. Discussion

4.1 Immediate impact
4.2 Developmental impact
4.3 The added value of multiple perspectives
4.4 The issue of cost

5. Conclusions

6. Recommendations

Annex: Summary Sheets of Case Studies

Indonesia
Elsewhere in Asia
Other regions

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank Harry van der Wulp, Janice Jiggins, Hermann Waibel, Jonathan Pincus, James Mangan, Gerd Walter-Echols, Elske van de Fliert and Jan Willem Ketelaar for providing useful comments on, and suggestions to, earlier drafts of this document. The study was commissioned by the Global IPM Facility to the Entomology Department of Wageningen University.