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Monitoring, Evaluation and Best Practices

Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies

Evidences

11 results

AGROIDEAS increases coffee yield

28/11/2025 Go to Evidence

92% increase in coffee yield per hectare among producers benefiting from the AGROIDEAS program (MIDAGRI, 2024).

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13036/2041

Tag: AgTech Value_chains Innovation InvestmentFinancing TFP
Country: Peru
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Science, Technology, and Innovation Value Addition
Instrument: Support or subsidy for the acquisition of production assets Seedling/working capital grants to start manufacturing or processing processes Agricultural extension services Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Urban or peri-urban farmers Family agriculture Producer organizations (cooperatives, etc.) Agricultural producers
Result: Access to financial services Productive diversification Impact: Production inclusion Technological Innovation Improved productivity Income improvement

Agroideas increases coffee production value

28/11/2025 Go to Evidence

61% increase in the value of coffee production among households supported by the AGROIDEAS iniciative (MIDAGRI, 2024).

MIDAGRI, 2024

Tag: AgTech Value_chains Innovation InvestmentFinancing TFP
Country: Peru
Sector: Agrifood (products) Coffee and coffee products
Area: Science, Technology, and Innovation Value Addition
Instrument: Support or subsidy for the acquisition of production assets Seedling/working capital grants to start manufacturing or processing processes Agricultural extension services Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Urban or peri-urban farmers Family agriculture Producer organizations (cooperatives, etc.) Agricultural producers
Result: Access to financial services Productive diversification Impact: Production inclusion Technological Innovation Improved productivity Income improvement

Agroideas improves guinea pig production

28/11/2025 Go to Evidence

44% increase in the value of guinea pig production among producers benefiting from the AGROIDEAS iniciative (MIDAGRI, 2024).

MIDAGRI, 2024

Tag: AgTech Value_chains Innovation InvestmentFinancing TFP
Country: Peru
Sector: Agrifood (products) Life Animals
Area: Science, Technology, and Innovation Value Addition
Instrument: Support or subsidy for the acquisition of production assets Seedling/working capital grants to start manufacturing or processing processes Agricultural extension services Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Urban or peri-urban farmers Family agriculture Producer organizations (cooperatives, etc.) Agricultural producers
Result: Access to financial services Productive diversification Impact: Production inclusion Technological Innovation Improved productivity Income improvement

Agroideas improves household income

28/11/2025 Go to Evidence

31% increase in self-employment income among households with longer participation in the AGROIDEAS iniciative (MIDAGRI, 2024).

MIDAGRI, 2024

Tag: AgTech Value_chains Innovation InvestmentFinancing TFP
Country: Peru
Sector: Information technology
Area: Science, Technology, and Innovation Value Addition
Instrument: Support or subsidy for the acquisition of production assets Seedling/working capital grants to start manufacturing or processing processes Agricultural extension services Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Urban or peri-urban farmers Family agriculture Producer organizations (cooperatives, etc.) Agricultural producers
Result: Access to financial services Productive diversification Impact: Production inclusion Technological Innovation Improved productivity Income improvement

Producers benefited by INIAP seeds

09/07/2025 Go to Evidence

45,165 producers were directly benefited with Iniap seed production between 2022 and 2024 (Redacción El Universo, 2025).

45,165 productores fueron beneficiados directamente con la producción de semillas del INIAP entre 2022 y 2024 (Redacción El Universo, 2025).

Redacción El Universo (9 de julio, 2025)

Tag: ClimateSmartAgriculture
Country: Ecuador
Sector: Seeds
Area: Family Farming
Instrument: Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Agricultural producers
Result: Impact: Production inclusion

Digitalized agricultural extension programs

21/04/2025 Go to Evidence

85% more effective are agricultural extension programs that incorporate digital components for technology transfer in Latin America, being fundamental to materialize innovations and connect research with producers according to CAF evaluations (Velásquez, A., 2025).

85% más efectivos resultan los programas de extensión agrícola que incorporan componentes digitales para transferencia tecnológica en América Latina, siendo fundamentales para materializar las innovaciones y conectar la investigación con productores según evaluaciones de CAF (Velásquez, A., 2025).

Velásquez, A. (2025). Estudios arqueológicos del aguacate en Mesoamérica. Editorial Académica.

Tag: AgTech Innovation
Country: Latin America (countries)
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products Science, technology and innovation
Area: Science, Technology, and Innovation Digital Transformation
Instrument: Agri-food digitilation Agricultural extension services Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Researchers Agricultural producers
Result: Improvement in technical assistance and rural extension services

Agricultural gross income

06/11/2024 Go to Evidence

3.3% of gross farm income in Brazil corresponded to producer support in 2021-23, a decrease from 7.6% in 2000-02 (OECD, 2024).

OECD (2024), Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2024: Innovation for Sustainable Productivity Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/74da57ed-en

Country: Brazil
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Value Addition
Instrument: Support or subsidy for agricultural producer prices Conditional support to producers Payments or subsidies to the producer based on agricultural production Direct transfers to producers

Agricultural support in Argentina

06/11/2024 Go to Evidence

0.1 % of GDP was the budget support to agriculture in 2021-23, while the Total Support Estimate (TSE) remained negative from -0.8 % in 2000-02 to -1.6 % in 2021-23 (OECD, 2024).

OECD (2024)

OECD (2024), Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2024: Innovation for Sustainable Productivity Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/74da57ed-en

Country: Argentina
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products
Area: Agrifood Context Value Addition
Instrument: Support or subsidy for agricultural producer prices Consumer prices subsidies for agrifood products Conditional support to producers Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Agricultural producers

Number of producers with NRC

01/08/2022 Go to Evidence

2,005 producers implemented plans with technical assistance.

2.005 es el número de productores con plan ejecutado y asistencia técnica.

Tag: Value_chains
Country: Argentina
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products Dairy Value Chain Meat and animal products Fruit and vegetables, includes roots and tubers
Area: Family Farming
Instrument: Business plans Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Agricultural producers
Result: Impact: Production inclusion Improved productivity

Economic impact

01/08/2022 Go to Evidence

Treated farmers reported an average 18 % increase in net agricultural income compared to the control group, based on IPW estimates.

Los productores tratados reportaron un incremento promedio de 18 % en los ingresos netos agropecuarios comparado con el grupo de control, según las estimaciones con ponderación IPW.

Tag: Innovation SustainableProductivity
Country: Argentina
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products Business organization and management
Area: SPS Services Family Farming
Instrument: Support for the adoption of agricultural technologies (transfering to producers) Direct transfers to producers
Beneficiary: Agricultural producers
Result: Impact: Economic growth Effectiveness of public expenditure Income improvement