– Any single agricultural project or program is necessarily part of a highly complex, interrelated system.

– To deliver utility and value, evaluation in the agricultural sector must take into account contextually sensitive issues.

– Evaluation practice applied to agricultural research and development requires the adaptation and development of more closely-tailored options and tools to meet its peculiar needs.

– Within this complex background, evaluation in the agricultural sector may attempt to:

a) Determine the adequacy of the project to address and overcome the situational constraints and thereby promote the desired results.

b) Determine deficiencies in results – and the reasons for them – by comparing actual

achievements with those expected.

c) Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of project activities and how these were managed

Determine the impacts of the project – both intended and unintended.

d) Examine the results of the project by comparing winners and losers.

e) Determine production increases and the reasons for these.

f) Examine the economic efficiency of the project

g) Present the lessons learned from project implementation and the recommendations that follow from them.