Skip to main content

Search

JOIN BLUE MARBLE

  • Log in
  • Principles
    • What are the principles?
    • Global Thinking Principle
    • Anthropocene as Context Principle
    • Transformative Engagement Principle
    • Integration Principle
    • Operating Principles
      • Transboundary Engagement
      • GLOCAL
      • Cross Siloes
      • Time being of the essence
      • Yin-Yang
      • Bricolage Methods
      • World Savvy
      • Skin in the Game
      • Theory of transformation
      • Transformation Fidelity
      • Transformational Alignment
      • Evaluation as Intervention
  • Network
    • Join the Network
    • Network members
    • Discussion
    • Transformations Systems Working Group
      • Fellows and convenors
      • Workstreams
      • Products
  • Case Studies
    • Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Coastal Zone: Western Region of Ghana
    • Evaluating Agriculture Systems Change
    • Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet
  • Resources
    • All resources
    • Articles
    • Books
    • Past webinars
    • Tools
    • Websites
  • Latest
    • All latest
    • Blog posts
    • Events
    • Webinars
  • About

Footer column 3

  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Sitemap
  • Principles
    • What are the principles?
    • Global Thinking Principle
    • Anthropocene as Context Principle
    • Transformative Engagement Principle
    • Integration Principle
    • Operating Principles
      • Transboundary Engagement
      • GLOCAL
      • Cross Siloes
      • Time being of the essence
      • Yin-Yang
      • Bricolage Methods
      • World Savvy
      • Skin in the Game
      • Theory of transformation
      • Transformation Fidelity
      • Transformational Alignment
      • Evaluation as Intervention
  • Network
    • Join the Network
    • Network members
    • Discussion
    • Transformations Systems Working Group
      • Fellows and convenors
      • Workstreams
      • Products
  • Case Studies
    • Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Coastal Zone: Western Region of Ghana
    • Evaluating Agriculture Systems Change
    • Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet
  • Resources
    • All resources
    • Articles
    • Books
    • Past webinars
    • Tools
    • Websites
  • Latest
    • All latest
    • Blog posts
    • Events
    • Webinars
  • About
JOIN BLUE MARBLE

  • Log in

Search

Agriculture

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • Agriculture

Blog post

Food Systems Summit Synthesis Deep Dive Reports

Blue Marble Evaluation (BME) teams have been working to synthesize themes across the hundreds of Independent Dialogues, resulting in three overall synthesis reports and four deep-dives into the perspectives of women, smallholder farmers, Indigenous peoples and youth.

Webinar

Regenerate Costa Rica + Blue Marble Baseline = Learning by Doing

Join us as we learn about Regenerate Costa Rica's transformative vision and how they have begun the process of developing one of the world's first Blue Marble Baselines and a future Blue Marble Hub for adaptive learning through implementation towards regeneration across Central America.

Blog post

Food and Agriculture Systems: A Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective

In writing about transformation in Blue Marble Evaluation, I quoted Million Belay, coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, who said: “At last there is a realization that change, fundamental change in the way we are living, is needed.” I met Million at

Blog post

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food Makes History with Formal Adoption of a Theory of Transformation

Michal's latest blog post introduces the new Theory of Transformation developed by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

Blog post

Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To

The McKnight Foundation has supported the first of the Blue Marble Evaluation innovators — from Michael Quinn Patton and the World Savvy team, to the evaluators embedded in the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and the Collaborative Crop Research Program. This initial Blue Marble Cohort has learned from each other, challenged each other, and is actively providing critical tools and frameworks for the field. Writing on the day of the launch of Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles in Minneapolis, Jane Maland Cady, Program Director, International – McKnight Foundation, explains that the work has only begun and why it’s important to use this approach to evaluation to address the critical challenges facing our one and only planet.

Webinar

Transforming Food Systems with Beacons of Hope

Learn more about how Beacons of Hope is working to transform the global food system, and how they are using Blue Marble Evaluation to support this work. 

Resource

Conference Report: Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems

This report presents the key highlights and contributions from the conference ‘Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems’. This conference was held on 3-4 April 2019 in Wageningen, the Netherlands and was the twelfth annual ‘M&E on the Cutting Edge’ conference. This event was organised by Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) in collaboration with Wageningen Economic Research and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform.

Author
Cecile Kusters, Hermine ten Hove, Diane Bosch, Marion Herens and Seerp Wigboldus
Year
2019

Resource

Blue Marble Case Example: The Global Alliance for the Future of Food

Presenters: Michael Quinn Patton, Pablo Vidueira

Summary: Hear from the world's first Blue Marble Evaluator, Pablo Vidueira, about his work supporting the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, an alliance of mostly private foundations working to leverage their resources and networks to get sustainable food systems on the political, economic, and social agenda. 

Author
Pablo Vidueira
Year
2019

Footer column 1

  • Principles
  • Case studies
  • Network

Footer column 2

  • Resources
  • Latest
  • About

Footer column 3

  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Sitemap

Footer column 4

  • Contact us
  • Join our network