Webinar: Evidence on Farmer Typologies and Innovation Scaling in Rwanda

Data-driven approaches to program targeting for agricultural transformation: Evidence on farmer typologies and innovation scaling in Rwanda

A Rwanda Strategy Support Program webinar organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB), and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI)

3.00-4:30 pm, Thursday, 17 June 2021

Location: Virtual (register here for event link)

Programs designed to accelerate Rwanda’s agricultural transformation rely on providing farmers with appropriate technologies, inputs, and services. But what does “appropriate” really mean in this context? What do we know about diversity among small-scale farmers in Rwanda, and how do we target programs appropriately? This webinar investigates the use of data-driven approaches to understanding variability in farm and farmer characteristics, to targeting programs to match those characteristics, and to designing strategies to improve targeting in ways that minimize unintended consequences. The webinar is directly relevant to the distribution of input subsidies in Rwanda through the Smart Nkunganire System (SNS) and a host of programs guided by the Fourth Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation (PSTA 4). Better targeting of the programs—including the products and services they provide to Rwandan farmers is critical to realizing PSTA 4’s goals in an efficient and effective manner.

 

PROGRAM

Chair: Honorable Dr. Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources

Guest speaker: Dr. Rhys Manners, Data Scientist, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Rwanda[1]

Discussant: Mr. Jean Claude Munyangabo, Managing Director, BK TecHouse

Discussant: Dr. Charles Bucagu, Deputy Director General of Agriculture Research and Technology Transfer, Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB)

 Moderator: Dr. David Spielman, Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader, Rwanda Strategy Support Program, International Food Policy Research Institute, Rwanda

 

 

[1] And co-author of our feature study: Hammond, J., Rosenblum, N., Breseman, D., Gorman, L., Manners, R., van Wijk, M.T., Sibomana, M., Remans, R., Vanlauwe, B. and Schut, M. (2020), “Towards actionable farm typologies: Scaling adoption of agricultural inputs in Rwanda” (Agricultural Systems v183; Publicly available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102857)