The main challenge in Indonesia to an innovation-led approach to increasing farm productivity and farmers’ incomes is not due to a lack of good ideas by researchers but rather the lack of effective mechanisms making these ideas available and accessible to farmers. The Applied Research and Innovation Systems in Agriculture (ARISA) project, funded by DFAT, takes an innovative partnership brokering approach to support 6 collaborative projects between RIs and private sector companies to incubate and deliver technology and agribusiness solutions appropriate to smallholder farmers in eastern Indonesia, including capacity building and technical assistance to catalyse innovation. Through this series of “hands-on” partnerships, ARISA is identifying and analysing opportunities and barriers to the expansion of research-private sector partnership that can help translate and deliver ideas and solutions from research to farmers. This paper discusses the successes and challenges
The purpose of this report is to provide some of the groundwork in answering the question of how the CGIAR system and other public agricultural research organisations should adapt and respond to an era of transformation framed by the SDGs....
This paper synthesizes Component 2 of the Regoverning Markets Programme. It is based on 38 empirical case studies where small-scale farmers and businesses connected successfully to dynamic markets, doing business with agri-processors and supermarkets. The studies aimed to derive models,...
The IFAD Innovation Strategy does not set new objectives for staff, but rather defines what is needed to create an innovation-friendly environment and to support staff in achieving the expected results.To strengthen its innovative capabilities and become a better catalyst...
The report specifically analyses the NIS in Peru and Colombia in the coffee and dairy sectors due to their economic importance for both countries and the large percentage of small producers in these sectors. In order to analyse the NIS,...
This study identifies, characterizes, evaluates, and validates promising agricultural innovations on wheat and faba bean crops along their value chains. It particularly addresses the following four research questions: ▪What constrains are likely to adversely influence efficiency, productivity, marketability, and market...
