The main challenge in Indonesia to an innovation-led approach to increasing farm productivity and farmers’ incomes is not due to a lack of good ideas by researchers but rather the lack of effective mechanisms making these ideas available and accessible to farmers. The Applied Research and Innovation Systems in Agriculture (ARISA) project, funded by DFAT, takes an innovative partnership brokering approach to support 6 collaborative projects between RIs and private sector companies to incubate and deliver technology and agribusiness solutions appropriate to smallholder farmers in eastern Indonesia, including capacity building and technical assistance to catalyse innovation. Through this series of “hands-on” partnerships, ARISA is identifying and analysing opportunities and barriers to the expansion of research-private sector partnership that can help translate and deliver ideas and solutions from research to farmers. This paper discusses the successes and challenges
The purpose of this report is to provide some of the groundwork in answering the question of how the CGIAR system and other public agricultural research organisations should adapt and respond to an era of transformation framed by the SDGs....
This paper synthesizes Component 2 of the Regoverning Markets Programme. It is based on 38 empirical case studies where small-scale farmers and businesses connected successfully to dynamic markets, doing business with agri-processors and supermarkets. The studies aimed to derive models,...
This document provides a review of existing reports regarding the agri-food research landscape in 2006/2007 for 14 EU countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey) and also explores trends and needs...
While privatization of extension has received considerable attention with respect to implications for public and private good, less consideration has been given to structural and relational implications for knowledge sharing. Therefore this paper, presented at the 12th European IFSA Symposium...
The purpose of this report is to show how and why scientific understanding of biological and sociocultural (sex-gender) differences between women and men can enhance success of innovation policies that seek to promote socioeconomic advancements through science and technology. The...
