América Latina es una región muy heterogénea en términos de los niveles de desarrollo de los países y la madurez de sus SNI. Sin embargo, la región tiene una característica común que cruza desde la Patagonia hasta el Río Grande y desde el Pacífico hasta el Atlántico: es muy desigual socialmente hablando. Después de décadas de esfuerzos por avanzar más rá-pidamente en la senda del desarrollo, América Latina sigue siendo la región más desigual del mundo.
Given the diversity and context-specificity of innovation systems approaches, in March 2007 the World Bank organized a workshop in which about 80 experts (representing donor agencies, development and related agencies, academia, and the World Bank) took stock of recent experiences with innovation systems in agriculture and reconsidered strategies for their future development. This paper summarizes the workshop findings and uses them to develop and discuss key issues in applying the innovation systems concept. The workshop’s recommendations, including next steps for the wider
This report explores the role of rural networks in enhancing innovation processes, questioning the features of the agricultural/rural networks could enhance farmers’ ability to co-innovate in cooperation with other actors. The prospect of this investigation is also to provide interesting and significant experiences that constitute examples for the ‘European Innovation Partnership’ by increasing farmers’ capacities to create, test, implement and evaluate innovations in cooperation with other rural actors.
The present case study investigated a policy-induced agricultural innovation network in Brandenburg.
This paper outlines key areas of intervention that are identified as the core of FAO's strategy on strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) across multiple areas of work (e.g. research and extension, agroecology, biotechnology, green jobs, resourcing etc.) for achieving sustainable rural development.
The purpose of this piece of work is to investigate, through a literature review, the role of intermediaries in agricultural and rural development. In the first place, a general view of the roles of intermediaries, (focusing on the two main types of intermediaries, i.e. facilitators and brokers), as depicted in literature, is provided. Following, the emergence of facilitators and brokers in agricultural literature is explored based on the turn from reductionist to systemic science as well as from the expert syndrome to participatory development.
Este libro es una guía para facilitadores del programa "El cacaotal mejorado" y trae herramientas medodológicas para emplear el programa en las ECA's. También trae información ditáctica, técnicas de facilitación, propuestas prácticas, técnicas, dinámicas y juegos. Enseña al facilitador como usar la série para capacitar el público.
Este trabajo buscó analizar la apropiación y aplicación de conocimientos y habilidades de familias cacaoteras que participaron en escuelas de campo en Bocas del Toro, Panamá.
Este informe trae un registro del trabajo realizado en una campaña de promoción a la agricultura sustentable. Se realizó un taller en la comunidad con la logística y diseño didáctico propicio para que se pudieran recoger insumos suficientes de cómo decir en palabras sencillas a una persona agricultora que es mucho más beneficioso realizar actividades sin insumos químicos, reconociendo los riesgos que produce en la salud y en el ambiente continuar haciendo uso de agroquímicos, de esa manera fue como se obtuvo el nombre de la campaña “Por una vida sana sembremos consciente, en armonía con el
Agriculture plays an important role in the economy of Pakistan and it is not possible to realize sustainable biological yields without following sustainable agricultural extension. However, these extension activities are not making significant impacts on crop yields and have not been able to help farmers realize sustainable biological yields and elevated rural livelihoods. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the perceptions of the farmers about the extension services. A survey study was conducted in the Peshawar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province - Northern Pakistan.