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• How agro-chemical use by farmers can be influenced by a combination of policies,

regulations, and market incentives.

3) What type of research could contribute to addressing these challenges?

• Applied research which can improve productivity of smallholders, especially

developing sustainable year round vegetable cultivation systems.

• Policy research to find out how land consolidation should be organized, how

land laws can be adjusted and how the growing group of farmers without land
can be employed by successful growing farms.

• Impact assessment if government regulations and market incentives with regards

to agrochemicals are influencing farmers towards the right direction.

H) For completed projects

1) What has happened since your DLO-IC project was completed?

Not relevant.

2) Are there follow-up proposals developed and to whom are they submitted?

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Already in the second year of the project a new proposal was successfully
submitted to the EU ProEcoAsia programme (see www.mapet.nl).

• A new project proposal on safe use of pesticides was developed and funded: start

in 2006.

• A new proposal on linking small farmers to export markets was developed and

submitted to a programme of ADB/DFID.

I) Additional information/remarks etc.

I would strongly suggest selecting several projects for an independent external
evaluation and impact assessment. In my view this should have been a standard
procedure for such a large programme as the LNV IC-404 programme.