Report – Systematic review of intervention impact in agricultural production, value chains, market regulation, and land security

There is renewed interest in food security as one of the key themes in international development cooperation since the World Bank published its World Development Report ‘Agriculture for Development’ and subsequently food prices and the number of malnourished people in the world peaked in the same year, 2008. In order to support future food security policy making, the DAC EvalNet meeting in 2010 expressed the need for a systematic review of recent evaluations and other research that would provide evidence-based information on successful approaches. The Netherlands, through its evaluation agency IOB, proposed that it should take the lead in preparing this systematic review and the Royal Tropical Institute was invited to carry it out. The main research question of this review is: ‘what is the evidence for, and nature of, the impact of development interventions on food security in developing countries?’