Projects:

Impact Assessment of Improving and Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa

Sector: Agriculture and Food Systems

Client: SRI International Network and Resources Center

Geography: West and Central Africa

Date: June, 2016

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DeftEdge helps ensure organizations meet ethical standards and objectives on a range of issues, such as economically empowering women and refugees through access to finance and markets and mitigating the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. (WFP, FAO, Pact, ActionAid, UNHCR livelihoods partners)

AIMS undertook a six country socio-economic impact study of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in West Africa; a project of the West African Agricultural Productivity Programme, which included a focus on women farmers. The mixed methods study involved data collection in 28 villages through 800 household surveys and over 50 interviews and focus group discussions in Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Togo.