El proceso de gestión de la innovación de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad de Antioquia produce importantes aportes al Sistema Nacional de Innovación Agropecuaria a través de la generación de nuevos conocimientos. Estos son consignados en el presente libro a través de la sistematización de los saberes propios del ejercicio profesoral, en cumplimiento de los ejes misionales de docencia, investigación y extensión, así como en la difusión del conocimiento que se produce al interior de la facultad.
El proceso de gestión de la innovación de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad de Antioquia produce importantes aportes al Sistema Nacional de Innovación Agropecuaria a través de la generación de nuevos conocimientos. Estos son consignados en el presente libro a través de la sistematización de los saberes propios del ejercicio profesoral, en cumplimiento de los ejes misionales de docencia, investigación y extensión, así como en la difusión del conocimiento que se produce al interior de la facultad.
Este libro ofrece instrumentos conceptuales sobre el agronegocio y sus perspectivas de cara a las exigencias tecnológicas y de innovación en la cuarta revolución industrial. Para ello, presenta un análisis de las técnicas y herramientas aplicadas al estudio de la gestión de conocimiento, la gestión tecnológica y las capacidades de innovación, así como algunos casos de éxito en la transferencia y la adopción de tecnologías en las organizaciones agrarias.
This paper illustrates the Small Stock Innovation Platform, an initiative which is one of the key tangible outcomes of the Strengthening Capacity in Agricultural Research for Development in Africa (SCARDA) program, focused on strengthening capacity in agricultural research systems in selected countries and institutions in all three sub-regions of Sub Saharan Africa.
The contributions and dynamic interaction of thousands of stakeholders from all sectors have created the GCARD (Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development) Roadmap, providing a clear path forward for all involved. The Roadmap highlights the urgent changes required in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) systems globally, to address worldwide goals of reducing hunger and poverty, creating opportunity for income growth while ensuring environmental sustainability and particularly meeting the needs of resource-poor farmers and consumer.
The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures final report provides an overview of the evidence and discusses the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all areas that interact with the food system.
This Training of Trainers Manual is designed to help build the capacity of trainers in flash flood risk management, who can then disseminate the knowledge to a larger number of practitioners. The manual presents an eight-day course including a three-day field trip. Detailed lesson plans for 21 sessions are followed by resource materials that will enable the trainers to replicate the course in their own work areas.
This article reviews the approaches proposed by SCARDA to address capacity strengthening for research management, how implementation took place and the lessons learned from the implementation activities. It begins with an overview of the intended project outputs and approach to capacity strengthening, followed by the implementation processes as undertaken in each sub-regional organisation and finishes with the lessons learned.
The poor performance of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is known to be largely due to the lack of effective and client- responsive agricultural research and development that could generate appropriate technologies and innovations to stimulate the agricultural development process. As a contribution to address this challenge, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), with support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), developed a project for Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa (SCARDA).
This paper traces the evolution of the innovation systems framework within the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, and presents a conceptual framework for agricultural innovation systems. The difference between innovation ecology/ecosystems and intervention-based innovations systems is highlighted, given that these two concepts are used at different levels in promoting and sustaining agricultural innovations.