Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This tenth brief explains how facilitation helps ensure that innovation platforms bring about lasting and positive change. Continue reading
In rural economies encumbered by significant market imperfections, farming decisions may partly be motivated by nutritional considerations, in addition to income and risk factors. These imperfections create the potential for farm assets to have direct dietary impacts on nutrition in addition to any indirect effects via income. This working paper from IFPRI tests this hypothesis for the dairy sector in rural Ethiopia, a context in which markets are very thin, own-consumption shares are very high, and milk is an important source of animal-based proteins and micronutrients for young children. Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This ninth brief discusses ways to facilitate learning and problem solving across innovation platforms at different levels (vertical linkages) and between initiatives located at the same level (horizontal linkages). Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This eighth brief explains the roles of innovation platforms in developing the capacities of their members. Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This seventh brief explains the contributions of communication and knowledge sharing to innovation platform development. Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This sixth brief explains ways that innovation platforms can be a useful vehicle to promote market development. Continue reading
This post was drafted by Terry Clayton based on conversations and interactions with people participating in the Participatory Agricultural Research: Approaches, Design and Evaluation (PARADE) workshop held in Oxford from 9-13 December 2013. We tend to be so preoccupied with how our research does or doesn’t, should or shouldn’t, can or could influence other people, … Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This fifth brief explains what monitoring systems do for an innovation platform, who is involved, how it works, and what to do with the findings. Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. To help document recent experiences and insights, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently published a series of short innovation platform ‘practice briefs’ to help guide the design and implementation of innovation platforms in agricultural research for development. This … Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This third brief focuses on interactions between research and innovation platforms – how researchers can engage with innovation platforms and how platforms can support research processes. Continue reading
ILRI Clippings 