This presentation focuses on Agricultural Innovation Systems in different sectors, including the South African wine sector in the apartheid era.
Magdalena Blum, Extension Systems Officer (Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome), presented the topic of Agricultural Innovation Systems in Family Farming during the 3rd GFRAS Annual Meeting, "The Role of Rural Advisory Services in Agricultural Innovation Systems", 26-28 September 2012, Philippines.
The presentation focuses on main issues and results from the FAO e-conference on AIS in family farming (4 June - 1 July 2012),including the role for innovation brokers and the vexed issue of funding for brokering.
The presentation was given for the SEARCA Forum-workshop on Platforms, Rural Advisory Services, and Knowledge Management: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development, Los Banos, 17-19 May 2016. It provided an overview about the process of facilitation and coordination in innovation platforms and explored the role of the innovation broker in the facilitation of innovation platforms.
Powerpoint presentation on training for NIFs. They have the skills and resources to conduct the Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) at innovation partnership/niche level
- Common understanding of concepts/terminology
- Capacity to use tools/methods
- Facilitation skills
Powerpoint presentation on the Common Framework on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CD for AIS) - Training of National Innovation Facilitators.
Powerpoint presentation on what is Capacity / Capacity Development and on effective Capacity Development for CDAIS. Training for National Innovation Facilitator’s (NIFs).
Powerpoint presenation on basic concepts and definitions of Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS).
Powerpoint presentation on Global Partnership on Developing Innovation Capacities in Agriculture.
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:
- Timeline
- Problem tree/solution tree
- NetMap mapping
- Capacity assessment questionnaire } Action Planning
Powerpoint presentation on Capacity Development (CD) for Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System. Training of Innovation Facilitators.