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
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 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 policy brief summarizes the background, evidence and insights from the innovative governance modelling and analysis work developed in Indonesia under the "Governance Innovation for Sustainable Development of Food Systems” subprogramme. In addition, the brief offers guiding points and recommendations...
This project report from Wageningen UR (as a contribution to the CGIAR Humid Tropics research program) examines critical issues for reflection when designing and implementing research for development in innovation platforms’. The current document therefore aims to increase awareness about...
In the framework of a wide Foresight process, launched by the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) and aiming to identify possible scenarios for European agriculture in a 20-year perspective, DG RTD/E of the European Commission established a high-level Consultancy...
