Scaling Up Solutions For Farmers

Author : Suhas P. Wani,K.V. Raju,Tapas Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030779351

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Scaling-up Solutions for Farmers by Suhas P. Wani,K.V. Raju,Tapas Bhattacharyya Pdf

This book provides a unique account of cross-sectoral innovations through efficient partnerships based on the hands-on experience of internationally renowned contributors specialised in the field of Science of Delivery. The challenges and lessons learned from large development initiatives based in Asia, and from the work undertaken by international research institutions, such as the FAO, are brought together in this book to benefit development agencies, policy makers, corporates, post graduate students, farmers’ organizations, and those involved in supplying agricultural inputs and/or buying agricultural produce, particularly in developing countries within Asia and Africa. Through a number of case studies the book describes how the consortium approach of capacity building for equitable and efficient benefits, collective action, and convergence, will benefit millions of small farm-holders in different regions of Asia

Author : Johannes F. Linn
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296756

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Scaling Up in Agriculture, Rural Development, and Nutrition by Johannes F. Linn Pdf

Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a major challenge. This collection of policy briefs is designed to contribute to a better understanding of the experience to date and the lessons for the future.

Author : Fiaz Ahmad,Muhammad Sultan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781838819217

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Technology in Agriculture by Fiaz Ahmad,Muhammad Sultan Pdf

Food security is one of the primary themes of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In this regard, agricultural engineering is considered the backbone of agriculture, and agricultural mechanization is considered a helpful way to enhance crop yield and farmers’ profitability. Technology in Agriculture presents research in the field of agricultural engineering technologies and applications in agricultural equipment engineering, biosystem engineering, energy systems engineering, and computers in agriculture. It provides an overview of recent advancements in agricultural engineering and examines key aspects of emerging technologies and their applications. In addition, the book explores modern methodologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning for agricultural mechanization.

Author : Michael Anthony Gismondi,Sean Connelly,Mark Roseland,Sean Patrick Markey,Mary Beckie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771990228

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Scaling Up by Michael Anthony Gismondi,Sean Connelly,Mark Roseland,Sean Patrick Markey,Mary Beckie Pdf

When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative to the capitalist market economy. Contributors to Scaling Up investigated innovative social economies in British Columbia and Alberta and discovered that achieving a social good through collective, grassroots enterprise resulted in a sustainable way of satisfying human needs that was also, by extension, environmentally responsible. As these case studies illustrate, organizations that are capable of harnessing the power of a social economy generally demonstrate a commitment to three outcomes: greater social justice, financial self-sufficiency, and environmental sustainability. Within the matrix of these three allied principles lie new strategic directions for the politics of sustainability. Whether they were examining attainable and affordable housing initiatives, co-operative approaches to the provision of social services, local credit unions, farmers' markets, or community-owned power companies, the contributors found social economies providing solutions based on reciprocity and an understanding of how parts function within the whole--an understanding that is essential to sustainability. In these locally defined and controlled, democratically operated organizations we see possibilities for a more human economy that is capable of transforming the very social and technical systems that make our current way of life unsustainable. Contributors: Mary Beckie, Randy Bell, Marena Brinkhurst, Kailey Cannon, Sean Connelly, Mike Gismondi, Lillian Hunt, Noel Keough, Freya Kristensen, Celia Lee, Mike Lewis, Julie L. MacArthur, Terri MacDonald, Sean Markey, Juanita Marois, George Penhold, Stewart Perry, John Restakis, Lauren Rethoret, Mark Roseland, Lynda Ross, Erin Swift-Leppakumpu, and Kelly Vodden.

Author : Douglas Pachico
Publisher : CIAT
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789586940641

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Scaling Up and Out: Achieving Widespread Impact through Agricultural Research by Douglas Pachico Pdf

Author : Jeehye Kim,Parmesh Shah,Joanne Catherine Gaskell,Ashesh Prasann
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781464815225

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Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa by Jeehye Kim,Parmesh Shah,Joanne Catherine Gaskell,Ashesh Prasann Pdf

This study—which includes a pilot intervention in Kenya—aims to further the state of knowledge about the emerging trend of disruptive agricultural technologies (DATs) in Africa, with a focus on supply-side dynamics. The first part of the study is a stocktaking analysis to assess the number, scope, trend, and characteristics of scalable disruptive technology innovators in agriculture in Africa. From a database of 434 existing DAT operations, the analysis identified 194 as scalable. The second part of the study is a comparative case study of Africa’s two most successful DAT ecosystems in Kenya and Nigeria, which together account for half of Sub-Saharan Africa’s active DATs. The objective of these two case studies is to understand the successes, challenges, and opportunities faced by each country in fostering a conducive innovation ecosystem for scaling up DATs. The case study analysis focuses on six dimensions of the innovation ecosystem in Kenya and Nigeria: finance, regulatory environment, culture, density, human capital, and infrastructure. The third part of the study is based on the interactions and learnings from a pilot event to boost the innovation ecosystem in Kenya. The Disruptive Agricultural Technology Innovation Knowledge and Challenge Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together more than 300 key stakeholders from large technology companies, agribusiness companies, and public agencies; government representatives and experts from research and academic institutions; and representatives from financial institutions, foundations, donors, and venture capitalists. Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa concludes by establishing that DATs are demonstrating early indications of a positive impact in addressing food system constraints. It offers potential entry points and policy recommendations to facilitate the broader adoption of DATs and improve the overall food system.

Author : David Wilson,Kirsty Wilson,Claire Harvey
Publisher : Practical Action Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1853397121

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Small Farmers, Big Change by David Wilson,Kirsty Wilson,Claire Harvey Pdf

This book includes examples of achieving wider change in smallholder agriculture, through influencing policy decisions, linking smallholders to value chains, innovating service provision for small farmers, with an emphasis on promoting equitable livelihoods and developing rural women's economic leadership.

Author : O. Kayser,V. Budinich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137466549

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Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems by O. Kayser,V. Budinich Pdf

A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions.

Author : Amarnath, Giriraj,Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh,Taron, Avinandan
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290909194

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Scaling up Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI) for agricultural resilience and flood-proofing livelihoods in developing countries by Amarnath, Giriraj,Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh,Taron, Avinandan Pdf

Research Reports The publications in this series cover a wide range of subjects—from computer modelling to experience with water user associations—and vary in content from directly applicable research to more basic studies, on which applied for work ultimately depends. Some research reports are narrowly focused, analytical and detailed empirical studies; others are wide-ranging and synthetic overviews of generic problems. Although most of the reports are published by IWMI staff and their collaborators, we welcome contributions from others. Each report is reviewed internally by IWMI staff, and by external reviewers. The reports are published and distributed both in hard copy and electronically (www.iwmi.org) and where possible all data and analyses will be available as separate downloadable files. Reports may be copied freely and cited with due acknowledgement

Author : Eric Holt-Giménez
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0935028277

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Campesino a Campesino by Eric Holt-Giménez Pdf

Campesino a Campesino tells the inspiring story of a true grassroots movement: poor peasant farmers teaching one another how to protect their environment while still earning a living. The first book in English about the farmer-led sustainable agriculture movement in Latin America, Campesino a Campesino includes lots of first-person stories and commentary from the farmer-teachers, mixing personal accounts with detailed analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and ecological factors that galvanized the movement. Campesino farmer leading a farmer to farmer training session in Mexico by Eric Holt-GimenezMany years ago, author Eric Holt-Gim�nez was a volunteer trying to teach sustainable agriculture techniques in the dusty highlands of central Mexico, with little success. Near the end of his tenure, he invited a group of visiting Guatemalan farmers to teach a course in his village. What he saw was like nothing he had known. The Guatemalans used parables, stories, and humor to present agricultural improvement to their Mexican compadres as a logical outcome of clear thinking and compassion; love of farming, of family, of nature, and of community. Rather than try to convince the Mexicans of their innovations, they insisted they experiment new things on a small scale first to see how well they worked. And they saw themselves as students, respecting the Mexicans' deep, lifelong knowledge of their own particular land and climate. All they asked in return was that the Mexicans turn around and share their new knowledge with others--which they did. CAC campo3_photo by Food FirstThis exchange was typical of a grassroots movement called Campesino a Campesino, or Farmer to Farmer, which has grown up in southern Mexico and war-torn Central America over the last three decades. In the book Campesino a Campesino, Holt-Gim�nez writes the first history of the movement, describing the social, political, economic, and environmental circumstances that shape it. The voices and stories of dozens of farmers in the movement are captured, bringing to vivid life this hopeful story of peasant farmers helping one another to farm sustainably, protecting their land, their environment, and their families' future.

Author : Bager, S. L,Dinesh, D,Olesen, A.S,Andersen, S.P,Eriksen, S.L,Friis, A
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789289350440

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Scaling-Up Climate Action in Agriculture by Bager, S. L,Dinesh, D,Olesen, A.S,Andersen, S.P,Eriksen, S.L,Friis, A Pdf

Increasing food production in the face of a growing population, while adapting to and mitigating climate change constitutes a main challenge for the global agricultural sector. This study identifies, analyses and contextualizes regional initiatives related to agriculture and climate change in developing countries. In order to identify needs for improvements and possibilities for replication or scale-up, a review of recently launched initiatives is combined with a SWOT analysis. Moreover, the study places initiatives in the context of INDCs of Sub-Saharan African countries submitted under the UNFCCC. As a result, recommendations on how to develop and implement best practice agriculture climate change initiatives are presented.

Author : O. Kayser,V. Budinich
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349499846

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Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems by O. Kayser,V. Budinich Pdf

A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Sean Markey,Mark Roseland
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781771990219

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Scaling Up by Sean Markey,Mark Roseland Pdf

When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative to the capitalist market economy. Contributors to Scaling Up investigated innovative social economies in British Columbia and Alberta and discovered that achieving a social good through collective, grassroots enterprise resulted in a sustainable way of satisfying human needs that was also, by extension, environmentally responsible. As these case studies illustrate, organizations that are capable of harnessing the power of a social economy generally demonstrate a commitment to three outcomes: greater social justice, financial self-sufficiency, and environmental sustainability. Within the matrix of these three allied principles lie new strategic directions for the politics of sustainability. Whether they were examining attainable and affordable housing initiatives, co-operative approaches to the provision of social services, local credit unions, farmers’ markets, or community-owned power companies, the contributors found social economies providing solutions based on reciprocity and an understanding of how parts function within the whole—an understanding that is essential to sustainability. In these locally defined and controlled, democratically operated organizations we see possibilities for a more human economy that is capable of transforming the very social and technical systems that make our current way of life unsustainable.

Author : CTA
Publisher : CTA
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Spore 195: Smart farming - Transforming Agriculture with Artificial Intelligence by CTA Pdf

Transforming Agriculture with Artificial Intelligence. At a time where the world needs to produce more with fewer resources, artificial intelligence (AI) could help to transform agriculture worldwide. SPORE is the quarterly magazine of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), offering a global perspective on agribusiness and sustainable agriculture. CTA operates under the Cotonou Agreement between the countries of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and the European Union and is financed by the EU.