Prepared by Mulubrhan Amare, Helder Zavale & Jenny Smart

1. Mulubrhan Amare1, Helder Zavale2 & Jenny Smart1
1. International Food Policy Research Institute 2. University of Eduardo Mondlane
Innovation for Agribusiness (InovAgro) Project Impact Evaluation Results
Contact: Jenny Smart (j.smart@cgiar.org) or Mulubrhan Amare (m.amare@cgiar.org)
Impact Evaluation of The Innovation for
Agribusiness (InovAgro) Project
in Northern Mozambique
Financial support from
Disclaimer: The analysis presented in this slide deck are the team’s own and does not necessarily reflect the views of IFPRI, UEM or SDC.

2. Background
• The objective of this independent impact evaluation is to assess the
impact of the MSD approach on HH welfare of participating
farmers.
• We employed modified “Gold Standard” RCT approach using spatial
identification strategy for generating beneficiary and non-
beneficiary households.
• 4 year longitudinal impact assessment with surveys of beneficiary
and non-beneficiary households in 2015 (baseline), 2017 (midline),
and 2019 (endline)

3. Key findings
• Household Level program impacts on beneficiary households
with respect to:
• decisions to adopt modern farming practices,
• access to input and output market information,
• agricultural productivity and marketing,
• income diversification and overall household welfare and
• women and youth empowerment effects.
• We find InovAgro interventions increase farmers’ use of yield-
enhancing agricultural inputs, access to market information,
productivity and welfare.
• A more intense, combination approach of using agro-dealers,
lead farmers & demonstration plots appears to be necessary
to achieve long-term positive effects on the overall welfare of
HHs.

4. Key findings
• We also examined and documented the market level effects of InovAgro:
• Systemic (long-term) effects;
• Sustainability effects;
• Large-scale (spillover or multiplier) effects; and
• Unintended (positive/negative) program effects.
• Systemic effects: We find evidence in support of the project’s
having a systemic market effect.
• Sustainability effects: The InovAgro MSD program has more
sustainable impact than non-MSD programs.
• Large-scale (spillover) effects: The InovAgro project benefited large
numbers of smallholder farmers beyond the project’s direct sphere
of influence and intended beneficiaries.
• Unintended effects: The InovAgro MSD program reduced
households’ crop diversification.