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The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in Family Farming
The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in...
How Innovative Is Your Agriculture ? Using Innovation Indicators and Benchmarks to Strengthen National
This paper explores the application of the innovation systems framework to the design and construction of national agricultural innovation indicators. Optimally, these indicators could be used to gauge and benchmark national performance in developing more responsive, dynamic, and innovative agricultural...
Capacity to innovate in the SRF Complexity
Paper presented to the European Initiative for Agricultural Research and Development (EIARD), 12 January 2015.
Conceptualising Inclusive Innovation: Modifying Systems of Innovation Frameworks to Understand Diffusion of New Technology to Low-Income Consumers
Inclusive innovation is the means by which new goods and services are developed for and/or by the billions living on lowest incomes. Although a topic of increasing interest, it has been relatively under-researched and under-conceptualised to date. This article studies...
Development Challenges of Indian Agriculture
This compendium consists of ten sector papers commissioned by FAO in 2008, as a precursor to the white paper and nally leading to the development of the FAO-India National Medium Term Priority Framework (NMTPF). These papers are intended to be...
Social learning in regional innovation networks: Trust, commitment and reframing as emergent properties of interaction
Social learning in multi-actor innovation networks is increasingly considered an important precondition for addressing sustainability in regional development contexts. Social learning is seen as a means for enabling stakeholders to take advantage of the diversity in perspectives, interests and values...
Challenges to strenghtening Agricultural Innovation Systems: Where do we go from here?
This paper was prepared to present at the Farmer First Revisited: 20 Years On conference at IDS, University of Sussex, UK, December 2007. Its focus is the challenge of strengthening agricultural innovation systems. The paper prefaces this discussion by reflecting...
Unravelling institutional determinants affecting change in agriculture in West Africa
This paper compares lessons learned from nine studies that explored institutional determinants of innovation towards sustainable intensification of West African agriculture. The studies investigated issues relating to crop, animal, and resources management in Benin, Ghana, and Mali
FAO Good Learning Practices For Effective Capacity Development (Learning module 3)
This Module is the third in a series of four that address capacity development competencies in FAO. It is intended to enhance FAO’s practices in designing, developing, delivering and evaluating its activities in support of learning in Member Countries, while...
FairTrade’s theory of change: an evaluation based on the cooperative life cycle framework and mixed methods
This study presents a quasi-experimental analysis of the impact of FairTrade certification on the commercial performance of coffee farmers in Tanzania. In doing so the study emphasises the importance of a well-contextualised theory of change as a basis for evaluation...
Global Plan Action for the conservation, sustainable use and development of forest genetic resources
Forest genetic resources (FGR) are the heritable materials maintained within and among tree and other woody plant species that are of actual or potential economic, environmental, scientific or societal value. They are crucial to the adaptation and protection of our...
FMIS research: a reflection on IWMI's 25 years in Nepal
International Water Management Institute, the then International Irrigation Management Institute (IWMI) began its activities in Nepal since 1986 with a Memorandum of Understanding with His Majesty’s Government of Nepal, now the Government of Nepal. The primary objectives were to strengthen...
