Establishing the empirical basis for tracing the development outcomes of agricultural investments

This DIIS Working Paper describes the design of a questionnaire survey developed and implemented in order to trace the development outcomes of foreign agricultural investments in six research locations in Tanzania and Uganda. The questionnaire survey was conducted as part of the Agricultural Investors as Development Actors (henceforward AIDA) research programme which, in particular, focuses on development outcomes in terms of

• employment, migration, food security and wider dynamic economic effects, such as access to technology, infrastructure and markets;

• land markets and perceived security of land tenure; and
• water access and security of tenure.

The working paper which serves as a methodological reference document describes the approach which was employed for drawing six independent samples of 400 respondents each, as well as the approach developed for computing a foreign agricultural investment exposure index and for computing a locally informed household poverty index.