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Evaluation of FAO cooperation with India in the period 2003-2008

Final Evaluation Report. March 2009

Year of publication 2009

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 384 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Evaluation report

Series title Country Programme Evaluation Series

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) At its May 2005 session, the FAO Programme Committee (PC) made recommendations for the work programme of the Evaluation Service for the period 2006-09. Following a suggestion made by the Committee in 2004 (CL 127/12, paragraph 49), the PC recommended that FAO should undertake “an evaluation drawing conclusions on the basis of evaluations of the totality of FAO’s work with individual countries”. The country evaluation in India was the sixth such exercise conducted by FAO and met the PC’s request at its May 2007 that future evaluations should also include countries other than Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries.

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