Strengthening Capacities for effective Agricultural Innovation Systems in the Tropics - GCP/GLO/626/EC
Innovation plays a key role in spurring the transformation of the agriculture sector to meet and enhance food security and nutrition, resilience and livelihoods of millions of family farmers. However, in low-income and lower-middle income countries, the capacities to harness the potential of innovation are very limited, owing to, among other things, poor and underperforming agricultural innovation systems (AIS)1 . AIS approaches represent a paradigm shift from linear and top-down model of technology transfer towards a system approach to agricultural innovation. Capacity-development (CD) interventions for strengthening AIS are seldom top-down, implemented in isolation, too small in scale and narrow in scope, focus solely on individual capacities, and neglect institutional, organizational and enabling environment dimensions. Against this background, Agrinatura and FAO partnered with funding from EU to strengthen capacities in Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Rwanda through this project. The expected outcome was “agricultural innovation systems are efficient and sustainable in meeting demands of farmers, agribusiness and consumers”. Its specific objective was to establish “a global partnership on capacity development in agricultural innovation systems on a sustainable footing, with needs assessed and approaches validated in eight pilot countries”.
| Format: | Project biblioteca |
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| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2020
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CB1021EN http://www.fao.org/3/cb1021en/cb1021en.pdf |
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