Globalization, urbanization and new market demands - together with ever-increasing quality and safety requirements - are putting significantly greater pressures on agrifood stakeholders in the world.
United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology
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UNU-MERIT
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Universities / Education / Training
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The United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) is a research and training institute of United Nations University based in Maastricht in the south of the Netherlands.
Areas of activity:
research and development
Focus of Capacity Development:
Institutional
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Publication year
2008
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This paper was prepared to present at the Farmer First Revisited: 20 Years On conference at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, December, 2007. Its focus is the challenge of strengthening agricultural innovation systems.
Publication year
2007
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This presentation focuses on Agricultural Innovation Systems in different sectors, including the South African wine sector in the apartheid era.
Publication year
2004
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The emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to agricultural research and development needs to be considered.
Publication year
2009
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This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia.
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Publication year
2011
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The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer of ideas from research to farmers has been largely discredited.
Publication year
2011
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This paper sets out an analytical framework for doing research on the question of how to use agricultural research for innovation and impact.
Publication year
2010
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This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example.
Publication year
2009
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This book contains a collection of papers that discuss the experience of an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) capacity building program in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Publication year
2012
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This paper was presented at the Farmer First Revisited: 20 Years On conference at IDS, University of Sussex, UK, December 2007. Its focus is the challenge of strengthening agricultural innovation systems. The paper prefaces this discussion by reflecting on an apparent paradox.
Publication year
2007
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