Managing hillside farming in Rwanda
The Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation project addressed cultivation on slopes. Terracing and soil management aimed to retain soil and water; reservoirs and irrigation were used in selected places.
Evaluate farming changes at the scale of the surveyed project sites. A project objective is not a measured increase in every farmer’s yield, and a national food-security claim needs national evidence.
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Recall the evidence
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Evidence and its scope
| Claim | Period and scope | Source |
|---|---|---|
| World Bank documentation describes terracing, soil improvement, runoff management and selected irrigation as approaches to reducing hillside erosion. | Project description published 2011 | Open source |
| The World Bank catalogue identifies a third follow-up impact-evaluation survey conducted in Rwanda in 2014. | 2014 survey | Open source |
Possible requirement roles
- Food production and accessSeparate yield, food supply and household access.; Define the intervention and evidence area.; Compare benefits, costs and environmental effects.
- Water supply and securityDefine the supply area and period.; Connect physical availability, demand and infrastructure.; Evaluate financial, energy, ecological and distributional effects.
- A country’s developmentUse the required national scale and income/development context.; Explain economic change, international connections and uneven social outcomes.; A city intervention alone cannot fulfil a national case.
Practise using the evidence
Apply a related skill
Sampling methods · Percentage change · Source evaluation
Compare with Viet Nam and global value chains
Compare local agricultural productivity with national production and trade. Do not apply project outcomes to the whole economy.
Viet Nam and global value chains
Check the comparison
Use a shared criterion, explain the geographical process and keep each source’s period and boundary. Different totals may reflect different definitions or populations. A comparison needs more than two separate descriptions.