Rural innovation systems: introduction

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Key readings on rural innovation

• One finger cannot lift a rock : facilitating innovation platforms to trigger institutional change in West Africa | 2012 | E. S. Nederlof, R. Pyburn eds.| bénin - ghana - mali | New pathways for rural innovation are explored to open up new opportunities for farmers. Concertation and Innovation Groups, a novel type of innovation platforms, can foster entrepreneurial drive and activity, develop vision, mobilize resources, develop market, and overcome resistance to change.
• Agricultural innovation systems : an investment sourcebook | World bank | 2012 This sourcebook draws on the principles of Agricultural Innovation Systems analysis and action to help identify, design, and implement the investments, approaches, and complementary interventions most likely to strengthen innovation systems and promote agricultural innovation and equitable growth.
• Integrated agricultural research for development ( IAR4D ) | Adekunle, A.A.; Hawkins, Richard; Nederlof, Suzanne | 2009 The IAR4D concept is explained to promote discussions among all stakeholders along the commodity chain including research, extension, farmers, policy, processors, input and output market, transporters, and agricultural financing agencies.
• Enhancing agricultural innovation : how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems | World bank | cop. 2006 | bangladesh - colombia - ghana – india. An assessment of the usefulness of the innovation systems concept in guiding investments to support the development of agricultural technology. Includes an operational agricultural innovation systems concept for developing countries.
• Conceptual and methodological developments in innovation |  Roling, Niels | 2006 | The author sketches the developments over 50 years of agricultural innovation thinking, from “treadmill innovation? in the Mid-West" to agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) and the Convergence of Sciences Programme.
• Innovation systems perspectives on developing-country agriculture : a critical review | Spielman, David J. | 2005 | An examination of recent applications of the innovation systems framework to developing-country agriculture. The use of more diverse methodologies to strengthen the mode of inquiry and quality of analysis is advocated.
• Agricultural knowledge and information systems for rural development ( AKIS /RD) : strategic and guiding principles | FAO - World bank | cop. 2000 | An integrated approach to agricultural education, research and extension based on Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems for Rural Development (AKIS/RD) is envisioned that will help to address the causes of rural poverty.
• Stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation : case studies from sub-Saharan Africa | Heemskerk, Willem; Wennink, Bertus | cop. 2005 | africa south of sahara - tanzania – benin | Case studies from sub-Saharan Africa demonstrate the strengths and weakness of stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation.

Find more documents

• Key documents on concepts & approaches in the Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on innovation brokering in the Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on finance & funding in the Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on learning alliances in the Rural Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on Research into Use in the Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on public-private partnerships in the Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on agricultural advisory services in the Rural Innovation Systems portal
• Key documents on gender in the Rural Innovation Systems Portal 
     

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