This paper has been prepared under the guidelines provided by the TAP Secretariat at the FAO, as a contribution to the G20 initiative TAP, which includes near 40 partners and is facilitated by FAO. Its purpose is to provide a Regional synthesis report on capacity needs assessment for agricultural innovation, with capacity gaps identified and analyzed, including recommendations to strengthen agricultural innovation systems (AIS) and draft policy recommendations to address the capacity gaps.
CABI’s Plantwise programme runs local plant clinics in 24 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America where trained ‘plant doctors’ provide on-the-spot diagnosis and advice for farmers who bring samples to the clinics. A database that records each consultation and shares knowledge across clinics and countries continually builds the ability of the programme to respond to farmers’ needs. The programme embodies key principles of an innovation systems approach.
Este trabajo busca contribuir a un mejor entendimiento de los factores exógenos y endógenos que inciden en el desempeño de CACAONICA y su participación en la cadena de valor del cacao, como insumo al desarrollo de una estrategia para fortalecer su posicionamiento y gobernanza.
Este documento hace una reflexión sobre como diseñar y ejecutar un proyecto para estimular un sector productivo en centroamérica. Esos estudios abarcaron ocho temas: 1) la caracterización espacial y política de los territorios cacaoteros; 2) el análisis del marco legal, institucional y político a nivel local y nacional que afectaba al sector cacao donde actuaría el PCC; 3) el inventario y valoración del rol de los gobiernos e instituciones de educación superior en el sector cacao a nivel nacional; 4) la participación de los municipios en el sector cacaotero y ambiental en los territorios de
El presente artículo documenta los factores endógenos y exógenos que han incidido sobre la cadena de valor del cacao orgánico en Waslala, Nicaragua y, en particular, en el posicionamiento y la gobernanza de Cacaonica; a partir de dicha evaluación, se definen líneas estratégicas que contribuyan a la consolidación empresarial de la cooperativa.
This paper argues that Dutch-funded capacity development projects in developing countries for tertiary agricultural education organisations as they are currently carried out are not able to successfully achieve the sustained changes required. That is, changes in how an organisation functions, its cultural norms and rules, and also in how it interacts within wider networks. Rather, long-term institutional change is needed.
There is increasing policy, practice and academic interest in “inclusive innovation”. In simple terms, this is the means by which new goods and services are developed for and/or by those who have been excluded from the development mainstream; particularly the billions living on lowest incomes. However, there are many competing perspectives on inclusive innovation, which this paper resolves into an integrated ‘ladder’ model of different levels of inclusive innovation.
This study examines the influence of an extra-curricular educational program on children's knowledge and cultural valuation of wild food plants, which are an important component of their diets. This program aims to reinforce children's traditional knowledge and values around biological resources in Wayanad, India's Western Ghats, encouraging tribal and non-tribal children to learn from each other and from their own communities. Results show that the educational program has enhanced children's ability to identify selected wild food plants.
This paper is a contribution to the establishment of a new capacity development (CD) 9 strategy, a process that the Consortium Office will facilitate, with external input, during 2013. The paper explores the lessons learned from CGIAR’s experience with CD and reflects the findings of a working group that was brought together in late 2012. The objective of the paper is to identify the roles that individual and institutional CD might play in CGIAR in order to increase CGIAR’s impact on the welfare of smallholder farmers and the sustainability of their farming systems.
The present article reviews the results and methodological design of an evaluation at higher education centres in Bolivia, Ghana and India. The ambition of these programmes was to integrate endogenous knowledge and values into education and research programmes. The evaluation provides an example of a mixed methods design that allowed for inclusion and appreciation of perspectives of different stakeholders. An evaluation team has to consider which set of methods is responding to the project context and how the methods complement each other and can be adapted to the case.