IFPRI recently released a working paper entitled Measuring R&D Performance from an Innovation Systems Perspective: An Illustration from the Nigeria and Ghana Agricultural Research Systems from the ASTI-IFPRI/FARA Conference held in Accra in December. The paper combines elements of organizational design, institutional analysis, and innovation systems literature to empirically measure organizational performance of agricultural research agencies in Nigeria and Ghana. Findings suggest a very weak to nonexistent farmer or impact orientation in National Agricultural Research Organizations in these countries, given that large shares of researchers in the samples interviewed had not interacted with farmers or extension agents in the previous year, nor had they any knowledge of the adoption or impact of the technologies they had contributed to generating. The full paper is available on IFPRI’s website.