We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural...

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2009

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Kristjanson PattiReid Robin SDickson NancyClark William CRomney DanniePuskur RanjithaMacmillan SusanGrace Delia

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Similarities Among FARA-Led IAR4D Innovation Platforms

Multi-stakeholder partnerships network which is typified by the FARA-led Integrated Agriculture Research for Development (IAR4D) of the SSA-Challenge Program is an innovation platform (IP) composed of stakeholders bound together by their individual interests in a shared commodity or outcome. The...

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2013

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Nokoe K SagaryAdekunle Adewale AAyanwale Adeolu BKefasi NyikahadzoiFedes van Rijn

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From measuring impact to learning institutional lessons: An innovation systems perspective on improving the management of international agricultural research

This paper argues that impact assessment research has not made more of a difference because the measurement of the economic impact has poor diagnostic power. In particular it fails to provide research managers with critical institutional lessons concerning ways of...

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2003

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Hall AndrewRasheed Sulaiman V.Clark NormanYoganand B.

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Transforming the Roles of a Public Extension Agency to Strengthen Innovation: Lessons from the National Agricultural Extension Project in Bangladesh

Purpose: The rapidly evolving nature of agricultural innovation processes in low-income countries requires agricultural extension agencies to transform the classical roles that previously supported linear information dissemination and adoption of innovation. In Bangladesh, strengthening agricultural innovation calls for facilitation of...

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2014

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Chowdhury Ataharul HuqHambly Odame HelenLeeuwis Cees

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