AgResults – a $118 million, multilateral initiative – is piloting pull mechanisms, or cash prizes that incentivize private sector companies to create and market innovations that benefit smallholder farmers and promote food security, health, and nutrition.
 
With the backing of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AgResults is generating lessons learned that could influence other development models and help bridge the $83 billion investment gap needed to sustain 870 million chronically malnourished people worldwide.
 
Abt Associates, the AgResults external impact evaluator, supports the program’s learning agenda. Abt uses rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the effectiveness of these pilot pull mechanisms to address perennial agricultural problems in India, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia, and on brucellosis vaccine development.
 
For the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), Abt is designing and conducting evaluations for AgResults projects until 2024. Abt regularly reports updates on evaluations and lessons learned in each pilot through the official AgResults newsletter.
 
Read more about AgResults:

• AgResults: A Framework for Evaluating Innovation Challenges
• Visit the AgResults website
• Read a detailed AgResults description
• Designing Rigorous Impact Evaluations of Agricultural “Pull” Mechanisms
• Evaluating Incentives to Make Agricultural Markets Work for the Poor