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
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