A new review examines 20 years of monitoring initiatives in sustainable agriculture. It provides insights and tools to help stakeholders prioritise investments and manage competing development goals.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? I was certainly hooked, when I saw that on the DFID website, and then followed the echoes as they reverberated hither and yon around the internet. Only one problem. None of the pages which refer to or summarize the study actually link to it. None of them. Not even DFID’s. ((Go on, tell me I’m wrong.)) I know that because I really looked (I posted a frustrated Nibble to that effect earlier today), but most importantly because once Jeremy had helped me locate the document ((Using DuckDuckGo, but that’s another story.)), I asked Google who links to its URL, and the list was very short. ((But I suppose that might change. Or is that assuming way too much? Anyway, for the record, there was really only this on the list.)) So, for completeness, here is the document in question, which was produced by ICRAF. And if I hadn’t found it, I wouldn’t now know that Appendix 7 contains a discussion of “Information systems for biodiversity in agro-ecosystems” which I really didn’t need to see.