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Dealing with critical challenges in African innovation platforms: Lessons for facilitation
There is growing scientific recognition of innovation platforms (IPs) and the role of facilitation in catalyzing agricultural innovation (see
Klerkx and Gildemacher 2011; Hounkonnou et al. 2012; Klerkx, Mierlo, and Leeuwis ...
IP documentation
The CRP on dryland systems has adopted innovation platform as the approach to address complex problems that the smallholder farmers are facing. The emphasis is on using a systems approach by bringing together various actors ...
Innovation Platform evaluation report: Assessing the influence of the IP on livelihoods and resilience in Marara/Changara, Tete Province, 10-15 May, 2015
This report describes the developed tool and results from the Marara/Changara IP for communities assessing the influence of the IP on their livelihoods, and on self-organization as one of the critical pillars of resilience.
Innovation platforms for sustainable land management in East African landscapes: Stewardship, incentives, and challenges
This paper examines the potential role of innovation platforms (IPs) in facilitating the adoption and scaling up of Sustainable Land
Management (SLM) practices in East Africa, where land degradation has been a prime challenge ...
Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms
Brief on Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms
Innovations for empowering women through harnessing value chains
Gender inclusive capacity strengthening of individuals, community and institutions on knowledge gaps and promising technologies
Food feed crops on demonstration plots. Report on MOREP project activities and results. In Dororo IP, Manica Province and Marara IP, Tete Province Central Mozambique (2012-2015)
The report summarizes results and feed back from participatory demonstration plots. The plots were implemented with 30 farmers in Tete and Manica each. The set up of demonstrations and priority crops were selected through ...
Role of public-private partnerships in biopesticides and biofertilizers research and development for sustaining agriculture production
PublicPrivatePartnerships
(PPPs) are important in involving private sectors for harnessing their efficient and enhanced mass
production and delivery of consumer products and services. In agriculture, the rationale for these ...
An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas
More than 400 million people in the developing world depend on dryland agriculture for their livelihoods. Dryland agriculture involves a complex combination of productive components: staple crops, vegetables, livestock, ...
Towards resilient and profitable farming systems in Central Mozambique using an open innovation platform approach
Farmers in Central Mozambique do not benefit adequately from growing markets for crops and livestock. Ecological, economic and
social barriers are intertwined: • Absence of functional markets restricting farmers from ...