The SRI-Rice Associate Director, Erika Styger, traveled to Haiti June 27-July 13 to assist the USAID-funded agriculture project Change Lavi Plantè in designing an 18-month SRI scaling up project targeted to use SRI methods on over 1,300 ha in St. Marc commune.
On the empirical side, a certain blind faith (e.g., Cahuc and Zylberberg 2016) in very narrowly specified experiments (even though their results are often ambivalent, and hard to scale up) projects the same neutralization effect.
Funds from the event will also be used to scale up projects run by the Salesian Sisters to rehabilitate girls who have been victims of trafficking and exploitation.
Erika Styger and Gaoussou Traore (Regional Coordinator of the SRI Scaling Up project for West Africa) traveled for 10 days in India, visiting with KGVK Agro in Ranchi, Jharkand State and the NGO Pran in Gaya, Bihar State, many SRI farmers who were in the process of harvesting rice and planting winter crops.
Other companies have scaled up projected capacitance to displays as large as 30 or 50 inches, says Colegrove, but these have only been produced in low volume.
M&E also enhances learning and encourages innovation to achieve better results and contribute to scaling up of projects.
Participants discussed the project's challenges, proffered solutions and the possibility of scaling up the project.
Although there was scepticism about the feasibility of scaling up the project to the entire genome and to many hundreds of cell types, recent advances in low-cost, rapid DNA-sequencing technology radically changed that view9.
And as scale up projects proliferate, they are contributing to the blossoming of a Scale Up Movement that will catalyze ambitious, growth-driven entrepreneurship in hundreds of these cities around the world.
