Supporting local institutions for inclusive green growth: Developing an Evidence Gap Map

Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ezra Berkhout , Jetske Bouma , Nikolaos Terzidis , Maarten Voors
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We conduct a structured search of the academic literature that assesses the impact of development interventions that aim to build and strengthen local-level institutions to facilitate Inclusive Green Growth. Inclusive Green Growth extends the standard growth perspective to include welfare enhancements both the poor (‘inclusive’) and for future (‘green’) generations. We restrict our search to studies in the domain of agriculture and poverty alleviation in the developing world. We access ten online databases and various working paper series and focus on summarising evidence from quantitative studies that use rigorous evaluation methods. Together, this yields 158 studies. We then retain 66 studies that contain a credible counterfactual. We visualize the interventions and outcomes in an Evidence Gap Map, highlighting both the available evidence and remaining knowledge gaps. Most studies suggest that strengthening local institutions can improve the delivery and targeting of public services and overall satisfaction with local governance. There are however, clear limitations and knowledge gaps highlighting priorities for future work. Few studies assess impacts on final outcomes such as household income or agricultural productivity and no studies assess inclusive and green outcomes jointly. We discuss the key benefits of a structured literature search and Evidence Gap Map for policy-makers and development practitioners and illustrate how it serves as a knowledge repository and identifies where evidence is lacking, thus setting the agenda for future work.

支持地方机构实现包容性绿色增长:制定证据差距图
我们对评估旨在建立和加强地方机构以促进包容性绿色增长的发展干预措施影响的学术文献进行了结构化检索。包容性绿色增长扩展了标准增长的视角,包括提高穷人(“包容性”)和未来几代人(“绿色”)的福利。我们将搜索范围限制在发展中国家农业和减轻贫困领域的研究。我们访问10个在线数据库和各种工作论文系列,并专注于总结使用严格评估方法的定量研究的证据。总共有158项研究。然后,我们保留了66项包含可信反事实的研究。我们在证据差距图中可视化干预措施和结果,突出显示现有证据和剩余的知识差距。大多数研究表明,加强地方机构可以改善公共服务的提供和目标,提高对地方治理的总体满意度。然而,存在明显的限制和知识差距,突出了未来工作的重点。很少有研究评估对家庭收入或农业生产力等最终结果的影响,也没有研究联合评估包容性和绿色结果。我们讨论了结构化文献检索和证据差距图对政策制定者和发展实践者的主要好处,并说明了它如何作为知识库并识别缺乏证据的地方,从而为未来的工作制定议程。
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Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 农林科学-农业综合
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期刊介绍: The NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation. NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences.
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