This paper presents findings of an explorative case study that looked at 22 organisations identified as fulfilling an intermediary role in the Kenyan agricultural sector. The results show that these organisations fulfill functions that are not limited to distribution of knowledge and putting it into use. The functions also include fostering integration and interaction among the diverse actors engaged in innovation networks and working on technological, organisational and institutional innovation.
The agricultural innovation systems approach emphasizes the collective nature of innovation and stresses that innovation is a co-evolutionary process, resulting from alignment of technical, social, institutional and organizational dimensions. These insights are increasingly informing interventions that focus on setting up multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as innovation platforms and networks, as mechanisms for enhancing agricultural innovation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
The purpose of this article is to investigate effective reformism: strategies that innovation networks deploy to create changes in their environment in order to establish a more conducive context for the realization and durable embedding of their innovation projects. Using a case study approach, effective reformism efforts are analyzed in a technological innovation trajectory related to the implementation of a new poultry husbandry system and an organizational innovation trajectory concerning new ways of co-operation among individual farms to establish economies of scale.
Increasingly, value chain approaches are integrated with multi-stakeholder processes to facilitate inclusive innovation and value chain upgrading of smallholders. This pathway to smallholder integration into agri-food markets has received limited analysis. This article analyses this integration through a case study of an ongoing smallholder dairy development programme in Tanzania.
El objetivo general de la guía es generar las competencias necesarias para que los técnicos del MIDA puedan formular proyectos con base en los principios de la planificación estratégica y de la gestión por resultados. De manera específica, se pretende que los lectores puedan:Aplicar correctamente la metodología de marco lógico; Establecer indicadores adecuados; Incorporar la gestión de riesgos; Implementar la gestión por resultados y mejorar la sistematización de información para el monitoreo y seguimiento.
El objetivo del presente boletín es presentar algunas experiencias de circuitos cortos provenientes tanto de América Latina como de otras partes del mundo, que permita a su vez identificar factores de éxito y lecciones aprendidas. Estos ejemplos se basan en los casos analizados durante el seminario sobre circuitos cortos recientemente organizado por la CEPAL, la FAO y la OMS
El informe estudia el contexto macroeconómico y hace análisis sectoriales agrícola. Discute la agricultura, la ganadería, la pesca y los bosques. Trata del Bienestar rural y la institucionalidad. Habla de políticas y discute la situación y perspectivas de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe.
The purpose of this publication (part of the FAO series on sustainable food value chain development) is to facilitate the systematic integration of gender equality dimensions into value chain development programmes and projects. It raises awareness on gender inequalities and discusses the importance of addressing these dimensions in value chain development, while also building a common approach for work on gender-sensitive value chain development.
Estas directrices, en el Marco de Referencia para el Desarrollo de Cadenas de Valor Sensibles al Género, están destinadas principalmente a ayudar a profesionales a diseñar e implementar intervenciones que brinden a mujeres y hombres las mismas oportunidades de beneficiarse del desarrollo dela cadena de valor agroalimentaria.
This book is the re-titled third edition of the widely used Agricultural Extension (van den Ban & Hawkins, 1988, 1996). Building on the previous editions,Communication for Rural Innovation maintains and adapts the insights and conceptual models of value today, while reflecting many new ideas, angles and modes of thinking concerning how agricultural extension is taught and carried through today.