CGIAR Research Programs
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This twelfth brief reflects on some of the challenges of measuring outcomes and impacts around innovation platforms. Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This eleventh brief explains how innovation platforms can support work on natural resources management issues that typically require joint action across scale and over time.
Authored by Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga, this book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and economic benefits of livestock markets … Continue reading
The introduction and dissemination of improved dairy cow breeds in Uganda is arguably the most significant step taken to develop a modern and commercial dairy industry in the country over the last two decades. This IFPRI study uses a nationally representative sample of Ugandan households to rigorously examine the impact of adoption of improved dairy … Continue reading
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
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