Poor farmers seldom benefit from new agricultural technologies. In response, research and extension approaches based on agricultural innovation systems are popular. Often agricultural research organisations are the network brokers, facilitating the emergence of the innovation system.
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Publication year
2017
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Little is known about effective ways to operationalize agricultural innovation processes.
Publication year
2016
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Most cocoa farmers in Ghana do not adopt research recommendations because they cannot afford the cost, therefore, yields are low. Integrated pest management (IPM) technologies that rely on low external inputs were tried with a group of farmers.
Publication year
2011
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This paper addresses questions over the function and institutional arrangements of climate finance from an innovation systems perspective.
Publication year
2012
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This paper takes the viewpoint of a social scientist and looks at agricultural scientists' pathways for science impact.
Publication year
2009
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Adapting through innovation is one way for rural communities to sustain and improve their livelihoods and environments. Since the 1980s research and development organizations have developed participatory approaches to foster rural innovation.
Publication year
2009
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One option for practically applying innovation systems thinking involves the establishment of innovation platforms (IPs). Such platforms are designed to bring together a variety of different stakeholders to exchange knowledge and resources and take action to solve common problems.
Publication year
2014
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Various authors have identified the potential relevance of innovation system approaches for inclusive innovation, that is, the means by which new goods and services are developed for and by the poor. However, it is still a question how best to operationalize this.
Publication year
2014
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This paper identifies the stakeholders of System of Rice Intensification (SRI), their roles and actions and the supporting and enabling environment of innovation in the state as the elements of the Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) in SRI in Tripura state of India and studies the relationship
Publication year
2015
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Recent experiences in participatory video-making raise the question of how best to use this medium for enhancing local seed innovation systems.
Publication year
2010
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This article studies the impact of innovation platforms in Tanga Region, Tanzania, set up by the MilkIT dairy development project to intensify smallholder production through feed enhancement and value chain approaches. The conceptual framework used builds up from three socio-economic theories.
Publication year
2015
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In Bangladesh, strengthening agricultural innovation calls for facilitation of interactive communication and a wide range of mediation tasks within (and between) stakeholders operating in different social spheres.
Publication year
2014
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