This document discusses the challenges of scaling up agricultural technologies from pilots to widespread adoption. It notes that pilots often fail to scale due to a narrow focus on the technologies themselves, rather than the social and institutional factors that enable adoption. Successful scaling requires considering issues like cost and benefits to farmers, access to inputs and markets, support systems, and the roles of different actors in delivering, financing, and supporting the technology. The document advocates identifying the enabling factors needed for scaling before piloting a technology, and scaling out the innovation processes and institutions, not just the technologies alone.
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Scaling up
1. V Padmakumar
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems
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3. 1.
Discovery
2. Proof of
concept 3. Piloting 4. Scaling
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Research
Development Partners
Source: GIZ BEAF
Research – Development Continuum
“pilots never fail and never scale”
6. DETERMINANTS OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND SCALING
Technology
Cost and
benefits
Who will
deliver?
Affordability
Who will
provide
credit?
How long will it
take to get the
benefit?
Who will provide
continuous
service?
Accessibility
to inputs
Who will
arrange inputs?
Will there
be credit
facility?
Linkage
to market
Policy
What will
be the
cost?
Marketing
mechanisms
Requires
additional
labour?
Insurance
The Enablers
Support
system
Technologies are exciting. But in smallholder system, innovations around
social and institutional mechanisms are vital
7. Pig nutrition project
Use of compounded feed is a TECHNICAL solution
But to adopt this innovation the following are essential:
-Cost : Benefit (significant? short term?)
-Market/demand (remunerative price for live pigs/pork, import policy)
-Feed purchase - availability of cash/credit (affordability)
-Institution/agency to produce and supply feed regularly (accessibility)
e.g.
Recommendation:
(Rice-bran based pig diet, if balanced with protein rich soybean meal will improve
economic competitiveness of pig production (10$ per pig increase in profit)
Will farmers continue using this technology after the pilot?
8. “Very often scaling out refers only to the scaling out of
successful technologies.
Simply scaling out the technology without scaling out the
processes also that led to the technology becoming successful
in a particular locality tends not to work.
We need to find ways of scaling out innovation processes that
lead to successful technologies in given circumstances rather
than a narrow focus on the technologies themselves”
-Werner Stur, Alan Duncan
At the beginning of the pilot, identify the enabling factors that can
lead successful scaling of the innovation
