Innovation Platforms for Agricultural Development: Evaluating the Mature Innovation Platforms Landscape

ISBN-13: 9781138588905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 190 str.

Iddo Dror; Jean-Joseph Cadilhon; Marc Schut

Opis

Innovation Platforms (IPs) stimulate multi-stakeholder collaboration and action towards the realization of agricultural development outcomes. This book enhances the body of knowledge of IPs by focusing on mature platforms and innovations in farmer co-operatives and agricultural extension services.

Spis treści

Foreword  Franck Rijsberman and Kwesi Atta-Krah  1. The State of Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development  Marc Schut, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Michael Misiko and Iddo Dror  2. With Trust and a Little Help from Our Friends: how the Nicaragua Learning Alliance Scaled-up Training in Agribusiness  Dirk Hauke Landmann and Jean-Joseph Cadilhon  3. Overcoming Challenges for Crops, People and Policies in Central Africa: The Story of CIALCA Stakeholder Engagement  Perez Muchunguzi, Piet van Asten, Bernard Vanlauwe and Guy Blomme  4. Can an Innovation Platform Succeed as a Cooperative Society? The Story of Bubaare Innovation Platform Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd  Rebecca Mutebi Kalibwani, Jeniffer Twebaze, Rick Kamugisha, Honest Tumuheirwe, Edison Hilman, Moses M. Tenywa and Sospeter O. Nyamwaro  5. Crop-livestock-tree Integration in Uganda: the Case of Mukono-Wakiso Innovation Platform  Sylvia Namazzi, Perez Muchunguzi, Dieuwke Lamers, Anna Sole-Amat, Piet van Asten, Thomas Dubois, Victor Afari-Sefa, Moses M. Tenywa, Immaculate Mugisa, Mariëtte Daniëlle McCampbell and Murat Sartas  6. Humidtropics Innovation Platform Case Study: WeRATE Operations in West Kenya  Paul L. Woomer, Welissa Mulei and Celister Kaleha  7. Innovation Platforms for Improved Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Intensification in the Ethiopian Highlands  Zelalem Lema, Annet Abenakyo Mulema, Ewen Le Borgne and Alan Duncan  8. Sustaining the Supply of Organic White Gold: the Case of SysCom Innovation Platforms in India  Christian Andres, Lokendra Singh Mandloi and Gurbir Singh Bhullar  9. MilkIT Innovation Platform: Changing Women’s Lives – One Cow and One Litre of Milk at a Time – Deep in the Foothills of India’s Himalayan Mountains  Thanammal Ravichandran, Nils Teufel and Alan Duncan  10. Synthesis  Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Marc Schut, Michael Misiko and Iddo Dror  11. Are We There Yet? Some Reflections on the State of Innovation Platforms in Agricultural Research for Development  Iddo Dror, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon and Marc Schut