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Development projects, success or failure? Personal perspectives on an FAO fertilizer project in Nepal

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A development project introduces various changes into a community. Some of these changes are positive while others are negative or warrant better planning. Evaluation reports designed strictly for quantitative, targetoriented physical and fiscal achievements often overlook many of these changes. Our personal field observations and experiences with an agricultural development project showed us several examples of impacts brought about in the local farming system in some hill districts of Nepal. These impacts cannot be neglected and project evaluation and progress reports should accommodate such changes

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  1. Anil Shrestha
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Anil Shrestha is a C. S. Mott Pre-doctoral Fellow of Sustainable Agriculture at the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He holds a Master's degree in Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University, Ithaca, USA and a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad, India. He has worked as an Assistant Agronomist for five years with the Department of Agriculture, Nepal and three years as a Regional Supervisor of the FAO/Fertilizer and Related Inputs Program (FRIP) in Nepal. This paper is based on his observations as a Regional Supervisor of FRIP, and informal discussions with field level workers and farmers.

Purna Bahadur Chhetri holds a doctorate degree in Crop and Soil Sciences and a Master's degree in Resource Development from Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He has a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Rajendra Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India. He has worked for about eight years in several development projects, research centers, and an NGO in Nepal. At present he is a Rural Development Advisor of the Nepal-Australia Forestry Project, Kathmandu, Nepal. This paper also reflects some of his experience as a development worker in Nepal.

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Shrestha, A., Chhetri, P.B. Development projects, success or failure? Personal perspectives on an FAO fertilizer project in Nepal. Agric Hum Values 13, 71–74 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530525

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