The FAO Forestry Department partnered with ACDI/VOCA and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and other stakeholders to develop a training programme to apply the FFS approach to guide national and local efforts to integrate fruit and timber trees into agricultural production areas in Jamaica. This facilitator’s guide was developed to support agroforestry farmer field schools (AFFS) implementation in Jamaica. There are five main sections: Facilitation tools; AFFS management practices; AFFS innovations; agroforestry as business modules; and resource material and reference guides. The guide introduces the agroforestry farm planning methodology with a selection of diagnostic tools that combine the agroforestry diagnosis and design (D&D) methodology developed by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry CIFOR-ICRAF, with the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis and various cropping system methodologies.
This paper develops a quantitative, graph-theoretic method for analysing systems of institutions. With an application to the agricultural innovation system of Azerbaijan, the method is illustrated in detail. An assessment of existing institutional linkages in the system suggests that efforts should...
This PowerPoint document was presented during the OECD-ASEAN Regional Conference on Agricultural Policies to Promote Food Security and Agro-Forestry Productivity (Seoul, South Korea, 12-13 October 2015). The presentation outline is the the following: 1) About SEARCA; 2) Analytical Framework on AIS; 3) Governance of Innovation Systems;...
The privatization of agricultural research and extension establishments worldwide has led to the development of a market for services designed to support agricultural innovation. However, due to market and systemic failures, both supply side and demand side parties in this...
This presentation on the innovation system approach was presented to the Oromiya BoARD meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26 July 2007.
This report provides a synthesis of all findings and information generated through a “stocktaking” process that involved a desk study of Prolinnova documents and evaluation reports, a questionnaire to 40 staff members of international organizations in agricultural research and development (ARD),...
