This book will benefit people and teams involved in planning and decision making. On the basis of their pragmatic value in guiding decisions, needs assessments are used in various professions and settings from emergency rooms to corporate boardrooms to guide decision making. Nonetheless, although needs assessments have many different applications, in this book on needs assessments as they are applied in organizations to accomplish results, as opposed to their use in personal decisions or medical triage.
Innovation learning platforms have their roots in the agricultural innovation systems (AIS) approach. AIS emphasizes a systems view of agricultural innovations and conceptualizes an innovation system as all individuals and organizations that keep on interacting in producing and using knowledge and the institutional context of knowledge sharing and learning. Research creates knowledge and technology; but innovation process goes further to include putting that knowledge into use.
Esta tesis tiene el objetivo de analizar la situación actual del mercado de la teca proveniente de Hojancha y Nandayure y las barreras y oportunidades de inserción al mismo, esta investigación analiza los canales que conforman la red y sus márgenes de comercialización tomando en cuenta cada uno de los agentes de la cadena.
In order to facilitate improved returns to research and development in African agriculture, the innovation systems approach which engenders the involvement of multiple stakeholders in its innovation pathway, has been proposed. Despite the potential of this approach, the understanding of its implementation and particularly of the process of setting up its multi-stakeholder platform is still largely lacking. Yet, this platform is critical to the success and sustainability of the operations of the platform.
El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar a través de la información estadística obtenida por el VIII Censo Agrícola, Ganadero y Forestal del año 2007, la importancia que tiene la asistencia técnica en las unidades de producción en México para contar con elementos que sirvan en la toma de decisiones de éste servicio. Se realizó un análisis de la base de datos a nivel nacional y por zonas económicas a través de la obtención de frecuencias relativa
This chapter examines processes to inform decision making and manage innovation at four generally defined levels of the innovation system for agriculture; policy, investment, organization, and intervention and also identifies methods relevant at each level for assessing, prioritizing, monitoring, and evaluating innovation processes so that practitioners have the information needed for decision making and for managing limited resources effectively.
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). The program was the AusAID-funded Agricultural Research and Development Support Facility (ARDSF), which ran for fi ve years from 2007 to 2012, and which sought to improve the delivery of services by agricultural research organisations to smallholder farmers.
This paper discusses issues related to support for capacity strengthening for agricultural research for development (ARD) by member countries of the European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development. It summarises the findings of an analysis of the policies, programmes and projects in capacity strengthening for ARD of fourteen European countries. These policies, programmes and projects were previously examined in relation to a common set of criteria covering aspects of needs identification, design, implementation, assessment, documentation and sharing of information.
This paper reviews the current policies and programmes of EIARD members in relation to capacity development and makes recommendations on future directions. The main issues and recommendations will be incorporated into a policy brief in which specific policy options or guidelines will be presented. The goal of EIARDs strategy is to reduce poverty (i.e. MDGs); to promote economic growth, food security, and sustainable management of natural resources in developing & emerging economy countries and to contribute to global development issues and knowledge generation.
Les « modèles d’entreprises inclusives » ont fait l’objet d’un regain d’intérêt ces dernières années, dans le cadre de débats plus généraux concernant l’accroissement des investissements agricoles dans les pays à faible revenu. Ce rapport se penche sur les coentreprises dans le secteur agricole sud-africain. L’expérience de l’Afrique du Sud présente des caractéristiques propres liées à son histoire et à son récent programme de réforme agraire. Les bénéficiaires de la réforme agraire se sont embarqués dans diverses coentreprises avec des partenaires commerciaux.