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
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This second brief explains and illustrates ways that innovation platforms contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies. Continue reading
Innovation platforms are widely used in agricultural research to connect different stakeholders to achieve common goals. This first brief explains what innovation platforms are and how they work, and it describes some of their advantages and limitations. Continue reading
As promised six months ago, the Humidtropics situational analysis being conducted in the Northwest Vietnam action site is now ready to share its first lessons. This preliminary research activity of the Humidtropics CGIAR research program has been coordinated by Steve Staal, Regional Representative for Southeast Asia of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). It has … Continue reading
I joined the PARADE workshop from 9 to 11 December 2013. PARADE stands for Participatory Agricultural Research: Approaches, Design and Evaluation. The PARADE event held this week was an expert meeting at Saint Anne’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom. It was sadly not a vibrant, colourful and noisy display of human diversity… Then again, perhaps it … Continue reading
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