Este informe describe el contexto del Proyecto CATIE- MAGA- NORUEGA, así como los cambios en la vida de los participantes. El documento también describe los éxitos del proyecto y sus factores, las experiencias con las ECA's y los CADER, los limitantes del proyecto y sus factores, las principales lecciones aprendidas para el presente y el futuro y por fin trae recomendaciones para instancias tomadoras de decisión.
El propósito de ese informe es aportar insumos en el marco de un amplio diálogo de saberes, para el reconocimiento de la estrecha relación entre la investigación agrícola para el desarrollo, la innovación tecnológica y el bienestar de las comunidades rurales con referencia a sus medios de vida.
El propósito del presente estudio de caso es documentar un proceso de Investigación Agrícola para el Desarrollo (IAD): las ECAS de MAP en Trifinio, el cual analiza la experiencia del Proyecto Innovaciones en Cadenas de Valor de Hortalizas Epeciales. Asimismo resalta los principales logros y lecciones aprendidas, que sirven como un ejemplo tangible de un impacto positivo en la vinculación de IAD con la innovación, el desarrollo y el papel que pueden desempeñar las políticas y mecasnismos institucionales para promover esta relación
In line with the Watershed Guidelines of 2008 - released by the Government of India - the Indian Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, in partnership with the German International Cooperation (GIZ), has implemented a project called ‘Strengthening Capacity Building for Decentralized Watershed Management’. The objective of the project was to improve the capacities and networking of central and state organizations to implement large public investment for decentralized watershed management programs. The project was piloted and implemented in Rajasthan, Karnataka and Uttarakhand.
This paper aims to map the experience of the RIU Asia projects and draw out the main innovation management tactics being observed while laying the groundwork for further research on this topic. It provides a framework to help analyse the sorts of innovation management tasks that are becoming important. This framework distinguishes four elements of innovation management: (i) Functions (ii) Actions (iii) Tools and (iv) Organisational Format.
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. Agricultural innovation is a process that takes a multitude of different forms, and, within this process, agricultural research and expertise are mobilised at different points in time for different purposes. This paper uses two key analytical principles in order to find how research is actually put into use.
This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were “not put into use” in the programme’s implementation. However, the experience provides three important lessons for donors and governments to make use of agricultural research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation.
This paper is a reflection on a research project that defied the conventional technology transfer approach and adopted an approach based on innovation system principles to address fodder scarcity. Fodder scarcity in the project was conceptualized not as lack of technical capacity, but as lack of innovation capacity. This project tried to enhance innovation capacity by promoting appropriate configurations of stakeholders. However, translating this theory and principles into action was fraught with numerous challenges.