Renewing Innovation Systems In Agriculture And Food

Author : E. Coudel,H. Devautour,C.T. Soulard,G. Faure,B. Hubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086867684

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Renewing innovation systems in agriculture and food by E. Coudel,H. Devautour,C.T. Soulard,G. Faure,B. Hubert Pdf

Present-day society asks more from agriculture than just the production of food. Agriculture is now required to be concerned with the quality of food, ecosystem services, inclusion of marginalized populations, revitalization of rural territories, energy production, etc. This opening up of the future of agriculture encourages rural actors to experiment with new farming systems, using imagination, creativity and determination to replace dominant models. At the same time, low-cost mass-production systems continue on their way, with promises of a future based on green technologies. In this discussion it is important to consider what kind of sustainable development societies really want. Which innovations will help in achieving these developments? What role can research and public policies play in supporting the emergence of these innovations? This book takes the debate beyond the purely technical options and considers social and institutional innovations as well. It demonstrates that innovation is the result of a confrontation between visions of actors who often have divergent interests. There is no single path towards sustainable development and we must find ways to encourage the emergence and co-existence of different types of agriculture and food systems. The success of transitions will not only depend on our capacity to rethink existing models, but especially on our willingness to embark on a creative learning process from which we will inevitably emerge transformed.

Author : Lakhwinder Singh,Anita Gill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429554650

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Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia by Lakhwinder Singh,Anita Gill Pdf

This book looks at agricultural systems and rural economies in Asia through the prism of alternative innovation systems, alternative public policy and institutional changes. The massive shifts within the agricultural economy in Asia, geared towards increasing production, has had a direct effect on the livelihood of a large mass of people in rural societies, causing financial and social distress. This book explores a wide range of solutions, such as the role of education, improving technical skills and human capital, along with interactive learning in R&D, harnessing ICTs and institutional innovations, to see how these problems can be alleviated. The volume looks at how these methods can help formulate alternative ways to build sustainable and inclusive agricultural societies, ensure food security, sustainable growth and agricultural productivity. This book, rich in theoretical and empirical matter, will be useful for academics and researchers interested in agricultural innovation, development studies and agricultural economics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and thinktanks working towards inclusive social development and sustainability in Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821367404

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Enhancing Agricultural Innovation by World Bank Pdf

An innovation system can be defined as a network of organizations, enterprises, and individuals demanding and supplying knowledge and bringing it into a social and economic use. This book's primary aim, therefore, is to focus on the largely unexplored operational aspects of the innvoation systems concept and to explore its potential for agriculture. 'Enhancing Agricultural Innovation' evaluates real-world innovation systems and assesses the usefulness of the concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agricultural development. A typology of innovation systems is developed; strategies to guide investments for strengthening innovation capacity are drawn up; and concrete interventions options defined. In its conclusions, the book emphasizes the importance of mechanisms for collaboration and interaction. Intermediary organizations, innovation councils, farmer organizations, and other means to strengthen collaboration are central to creating the exchange of knowledge and perspectives that will convert knowledge into valuable new social and economic products and services.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389447

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Agricultural Innovation Systems by The World Bank Pdf

Managing the ability of agriculture to meet rising global demand and to respond to the changes and opportunities will require good policy, sustained investments, and innovation - not business as usual. Investments in public Research and Development, extension, education, and their links with one another have elicited high returns and pro-poor growth, but these investments alone will not elicit innovation at the pace or on the scale required by the intensifying and proliferating challenges confronting agriculture. Experience indicates that aside from a strong capacity in Research and Development, the ability to innovate is often related to collective action, coordination, the exchange of knowledge among diverse actors, the incentives and resources available to form partnerships and develop businesses, and conditions that make it possible for farmers or entrepreneurs to use the innovations. While consensus is developing about what is meant by 'innovation' and 'innovation system', no detailed blueprint exists for making agricultural innovation happen at a given time, in a given place, for a given result. The AIS approach that looks at these multiple conditions and relationships that promote innovation in agriculture, has however moved from a concept to a sub-discipline with principles of analysis and action. AIS investments must be specific to the context, responding to the stage of development in a particular country and agricultural sector, especially the AIS. This sourcebook contributes to identifying, designing, and implementing the investments, approaches, and complementary interventions that appear most likely to strengthen AIS and to promote agricultural innovation and equitable growth. It emphasizes the lessons learned, benefits and impacts, implementation issues, and prospects for replicating or expanding successful practices. The information in this sourcebook derives from approaches that have been tested at different scales in different contexts. It reflects the experiences and evolving understanding of numerous individuals and organizations concerned with agricultural innovation, including the World Bank. This information is targeted to the key operational staff in international and regional development agencies and national governments who design and implement lending projects and to the practitioners who design thematic programs and technical assistance packages. The sourcebook can also be an important resource for the research community and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

Author : Toillier, A., Guillonnet, R., Bucciarelli, M., Hawkins, R.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251333754

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Developing capacities for agricultural innovation systems by Toillier, A., Guillonnet, R., Bucciarelli, M., Hawkins, R. Pdf

This document intends to provide an analysis of the outcomes of the application of the TAP Common Framework in the eight countries of the Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CDAIS) project. The TAP Common Framework (TAP CF) was developed at the global level as an initial activity of the CDAIS project in order to guide capacity development (CD) and strengthening of Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS). The project then tested this framework in eight pilot countries (Guatemala, Honduras, Burkina Faso, Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lao PDR, Bangladesh). The purpose of the transversal analysis was to understand how the CDAIS approach contributed to outcomes and impacts in a diversity of contexts and to propose recommendations for upgrading the Common Framework across its theoretical and practical dimensions. The two main guiding questions were: • What made the CDAIS approach transformational (or not) in diverse contexts? • How useful, usable and used was the TAP Common Framework? The comparative analyses consisted in drawing patterns of context-mechanism-outcomes from case studies from the different countries. Insights gained from some countries were checked and complemented with the data and lessons learnt from others. Common findings were merged, and particular cases were used to expand or refine the generic theory that was built on the case-by-case approach.

Author : P. Anandajayasekeram,Berhanu Gebremedhin
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Integrating Innovation Systems Perspective and Value Chain Analysis in Agricultural Research for Development by P. Anandajayasekeram,Berhanu Gebremedhin Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264200584

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Agricultural Innovation Systems A Framework for Analysing the Role of the Government by OECD Pdf

This report reviews recent trends in agricultural innovation systems (AIS) and discusses the impact of a wide range of policies on the creation and diffusion of innovation in the agricultural and agrifood sector. It suggests a framework for ...

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264200593

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Agricultural Innovation Systems A Framework for Analysing the Role of the Government by OECD Pdf

This report reviews recent trends in agricultural innovation systems (AIS) and discusses the impact of a wide range of policies on the creation and diffusion of innovation in the agricultural and agrifood sector. It suggests a framework for ...

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264167445

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Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems OECD Conference Proceedings by OECD Pdf

This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris inJune 2011, discusses experiences and approaches to AKS explores how to foster development and adoption of innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges.

Author : Francis, J. (ed),Mytalka, L. (ed),van Huis, A. (ed),Röling, N. (ed)
Publisher : CTA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290815617

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Innovation systems by Francis, J. (ed),Mytalka, L. (ed),van Huis, A. (ed),Röling, N. (ed) Pdf

The result of an expert consultation, this publication examines ‘innovations systems’ – a concept suggested as underpinning industrial development – as a strategy for agricultural development. Innovation systems approaches conceptualise change as a long-term, socially-embedded process, and recognise the important role policy plays in shaping the parameters within which decisions are made. Providing a collection of papers and commentaries from the world’s top scholars and practitioners, this book looks at the strengths – but also the weaknesses and challenges –

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org. [Author] [Author]
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251385951

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National agricultural innovation system assessment in Pakistan by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

An assessment of seven innovation case studies in Pakistan in 2022 found that agriculture innovation systems show limited collaboration and networking, and a supply-driven rather than market driven approach to innovation. [Author] This limits the potential for scaling innovations such as the ‘Super Seeder’, a machine that sows wheat directly in the rice stubble, replacing the common practice of burning it. [Author] The study was conducted in September and October 2022 as part of the global TAP-AIS project coordinated by FAO’s Office of Innovation and funded by the European Union’s DeSIRA initiative. [Author] The seven innovation case studies were nominated by key organizations under three thematic area: digital transformation, product innovation and service innovation. [Author] A desk review, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and a self-assessment questionnaire was used to collect data. [Author] Major gaps identified included, among others: i) Innovation actors have limited organizational support and ability to initiate collaboration and engage in networking with other actors for the purposes of market formation and scaling innovation; ii) Collaboration was not pursued for all stages of innovation, that is, from innovation development to innovation scaling; and iii) A supply-driven approach tends to be used for innovation development and scaling, rather than a market-driven approach. [Author] The results of the assessment informed the next phase of the TAP-AIS project in Pakistan in 2023–2024, which includes organizational capacity development and a policy dialogue process to strengthen innovation systems for low-cost agricultural machinery for smallholders. [Author] The work contributes to the TAP-AIS project’s main objective to strengthen capacities to innovate in national agriculture innovation systems (AIS) in the context of climate-relevant, productive, and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems. [Author]

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251356050

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Documenting and scaling up knowledge and innovations – Guidelines and templates by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Assessing or understanding the agriculture innovation system (AIS) is an essential step to better understand the needs, new skills and functions needed by the actors and the system. To accelerate the uptake of innovation and progress towards eradicating poverty, there is an urgent need for well-coordinated, demand-driven, and market-oriented information, knowledge, technologies and services. This document includes a set of information, templates and resources that aim to assist agricultural Innovation systems actors, stakeholders, producers, farmers to develop and share impactful stories. It guides actors and organizations across all sectors in the innovation system to collect and document case studies, success stories, good practices and lessons learned from the project initiatives, trainings and others actions. It highlights scaling-up elements so that other actors can replicate these innovations with a view to scale-up, particularly the stakeholders and actors involved in the DeSira project, through knowledge exchange and sharing.

Author : Hellin, Jonathan,Beuchelt, Tina,Camacho, Carolina,Govaerts, Bram,Donnet, Laura,Riis-Jacobsen, Jens
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An innovation systems approach to enhanced farmer adoption of climate-ready germplasm and agronomic practices by Hellin, Jonathan,Beuchelt, Tina,Camacho, Carolina,Govaerts, Bram,Donnet, Laura,Riis-Jacobsen, Jens Pdf

By 2050, climate change is likely to reduce maize production globally by 3–10 percent and wheat production in developing countries by 29–34 percent. Even without climate change, the real costs of wheat and maize will increase by 60 percent between 2000 and 2050; climate change could make the figure substantially greater. Food security, despite the above, may be possible if agricultural systems are transformed through improved seed, fertilizer, land use, and governance.

Author : Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Kristin Davis, and Dejene Aredo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896297807

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Advancing agriculture in developing countries through knowledge and innovation: Synopsis of an International Conference by Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Kristin Davis, and Dejene Aredo Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251355336

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A way forward for supporting agricultural innovation in the Lao People's Democratic Republic by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This brief introduces the reader to the agricultural innovation systems (AIS) concept and the TAP-AIS project, implemented by FAO in nine countries, including Lao People's Democratic Republic. The results of the AIS assessment for Lao People's Democratic Republic are presented highlighting the most significant constraints and opportunities to agricultural innovation in the country. The outcomes from the first in a series of TAP-AIS policy dialogue events in Lao People's Democratic Republic, held on 25 October 2021, are also summarized and a way forward for the policy dialogue process, including priority recommendations from the AIS assessment, to support agricultural innovation in Lao People's Democratic Republic is presented.