Policy-oriented Research in the CGIAR: Assessing the Impact

Building on an earlier exploratory study, in 2007–2008 the CGIAR’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) undertook an initiative in collaboration with seven CGIAR centers to augment the evidence of policy-oriented research (POR) impacts within the CGIAR system and to further the development of methodologies in this challenging area of impact assessment. Seven case studies were commissioned. This impact brief describes the major results that emerged from the overall study. For the full version see: CGIAR Science Council. 2008. Impact Assessment of Policy-Oriented Research in the CGIAR: Evidence and Insights from Case Studies. A study commissioned by the Science Council Standing Panel on Impact Assessment CGIAR Science Council Secretariat: Rome, Italy

Towards Appraising the Impact of Legume Research

This Impact Brief (No 44) is based on the Legumes Synthesis Report that documents the most important cases of farmers adopting new varieties, and the economic, social and environmental impacts of legume technologies developed by CGIAR in collaboration with national agricultural research system (NARS) partners. It reviews research results from over 30 adoption surveys conducted in more than 20 developing countries (primarily the Diffusion and Impact of Improved Varieties in Africa i.e DIIVA study data), which provide evidence that farmers are growing improved legume varieties in many regions. This was one in a series of ex post impact assessments of CGIAR research that examined thematic areas which, up to 2010, had not been properly evaluated but for which anecdotal evidence suggested considerable impact

The Position of Chemistry within Heisenberg’s Concept of Closed Theories

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A Group Theoretical Analysis of the Periodic System of Elements

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Symmetry Breaking and Everett’s Many-World Hypothesis

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Mendeleev’s Philosophical Concept of Chemical Elements in 1869: The Rare Earth Influence

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Group Structural Realism: An Attempt to Represent the World in Terms of Broken Symmetries

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Natural Kind Pluralism

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