The problems of family businesses transcend borders, scales, environments, and areas. Within the agricultural sector, family businesses represent 80 percent of the productive units that contribute to the economic development of Argentina and Uruguay.
Tropical Agriculture Platform
The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), a multilateral facilitation mechanism of more than 40 partners, was established by the G20 to boost agricultural innovation in tropical countries. With financial support from the European Union (EU), theTAP Action Plan is jointly implemented by FAO and Agrinatura with activities in Africa, Asia and Central America.
Areas of activity:
Agricultural Innovation Systems
Capacity development
monitoring and evaluation: needs assessment
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
Institutional
Resources from this Organisation
Publication year
2024
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The Newsletter of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) provides regular updates on activities by TAP and its partners, on the projects and on upcoming events. This issue specifically refers to the period from August 2023 to February 2024.
Publication year
2024
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This training manual, which is based on a methodology developed by FAO’s Research and Extension Unit (OINR), presents a training course on assessing AIS consisting of eight modules.
Publication year
2022
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This collection of posters from the TAP-AIS project illustrates key achievements of the project towards strengthening national agricultural innovation systems (AIS) in Africa (Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal), Latin America (Colombia), Asia and the Pacific (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Pakist
Publication year
2023
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The Newsletter of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) provides regular updates on activities by TAP and its partners, on the projects and on upcoming events. This issue specifically refers to the period from January 2023 to July 2023.
Publication year
2023
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The Newsletter of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) provides regular updates on activities by TAP and its partners, on the projects and on upcoming events. This issue specifically refers to the period from August 2022 to November 2022.
Publication year
2022
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The Newsletter of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) provides regular updates on activities by TAP and its partners, on the projects and on upcoming events. This issue specifically refers to the period from May 2022 to July 2022.
Publication year
2022
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The Newsletter of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) provides regular updates on activities by TAP and its partners, on the projects and on upcoming events. This issue specifically refers to the period from February 2022 to April 2022.
Publication year
2022
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Powerpoint presentation on Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System. Training of Innovation Facilitators.
Publication year
2016
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Powerpoint presentation on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems - Toolkit for Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) at innovation niche partnership level.
Key tools for use in CNA at niche level:
Publication year
2016
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A poster on Capacity Needs Assessment displayed in simple steps.
Publication year
2016
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Powerpoint presentation on Global Partnership on Developing Innovation Capacities in Agriculture.
Publication year
2016
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