This report explores the role of rural networks in enhancing innovation processes, questioning the features of the agricultural/rural networks could enhance farmers’ ability to co-innovate in cooperation with other actors. The prospect of this investigation is also to provide interesting and significant experiences that constitute examples for the ‘European Innovation Partnership’ by increasing farmers’ capacities to create, test, implement and evaluate innovations in cooperation with other rural actors.
El valor de la producción agroalimentaria del estado de Puebla ocupa el sexto lugar a nivel nacional. Sin embargo, los beneficios para los productores de hortalizas de la región no han sido los esperados en gran medida debido al intermediarismo y ausencia de análisis relacionados a la cadena de valor, logística y cadena de suministro. El presente estudio recopiló la información de algunos agentes que participan en la cadena de valor de la producción- comercialización de hortalizas en cuatro municipios del Distrito de Desarrollo Rural de Tecamachalco, Puebla, México.
Esta tesis constituye un insumo construido de manera participativa con las comunidades agrarias y rurales de Camino Verde, El Triunfo, Nueva Gomera, Nuevo Monte Cristo y San Rafael, con el propósito de analizar en conjunto la situación actual y expectativa de desarrollo a futuro de las familias campesinas.
Green Extension is an umbrella term used to describe rural advisory services which support the scaling up of sustainable agriculture. This encompasses a range of methods to promote various types of content. What these approaches have in common is a process of socio-ecological learning, i.e., supporting farmers to analyse local problems and opportunities, and test alternative practices under local conditions.
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.
Esta investigación aborda el rol de la comunicación en el recorrido institucional que deriva en la actual organización de los proyectos regionales en torno a un enfoque territorial, en el Centro Regional Misiones, Argentina, del Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). En ese recorrido se repasan las miradas disciplinares existentes, sus formas de organización en torno a la investigación y la extensión, sus consecuencias en la elaboración de los proyectos y para el papel asignado a la comunicación.
In 2011, the Platform for African European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) launched the Users-led Process (ULP) to better articulate users’ needs in a multi-stakeholder research and innovation (R&I) partnership. The ULP comprises six critical steps: (1) Identification of a federating theme; (2) Desk review; (3) Introduction workshop; (4) Multi-stakeholder research question inception workshop; (5) Concept note development; (6) Full proposal development.
evelopment projects on interventions to reduce postharvest losses (PHL) are often implemented largely independently of the specific context and without sufficient adaptation to the needs of people who are supposed to use them. An approach is needed for the design and implementation of specific, locally owned interventions in development projects. This approach is based on Participatory Development and includes Living Lab and World Cafés. We applied the approach in a case study on reducing PHL in tomato value chains in Nigeria. The approach consists of nine steps.
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.
This publication represents a synthesis of assessments of national agricultural innovation systems in countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus and Turkey. The first chapter gives an introduction of the project “Capacity Development for Analysis and Strengthening of Agricultural Innovation Systems in Central Asia and Turkey”, out of which the current publication reports about one of the project outputs achieved.