Innovation platforms as spaces
for change and transformation in
rural communities
Alan Duncan
MilkIT Pre-inception Workshop, Nairobi
24th – 25th January 2012

The conventional approach to livestock feed
development
Technologies

Input
supplier
Collector Processor
Research Extension Rural
farmer Consumer
Conventional Coop
approach:
research to Innovation
farmer Participator Systems
y revolution:
Approach:
feedback research inside
loops

FAP

Innovation processes in Ada’a Ethiopia
Technical innovation
May 2008 Fodder
options
identified
Crop Grow
plc
Seed
sourced
44 farmers Land ooLakes
Land Lakes
plant on FAP Field
Eden Field
Eden NARS
own fields Seeds
Seeds
Dairy co-op
formed
Farmers
FAP
Farmers
FAP NARS
NARS
X-bred cows Ethiopian
Institutional innovation
sourced Meat & Dairy
Farmers
Tech Inst. Ministry
purchase IPMS
Ethiopian
seed Meat & Dairy (extension)
60 farmers Tech Inst. Ministry
FAP IPMS
plant on Ministry
own fields IPMS (extension)
(extension)
Milk transport Farmers
issues voiced
Godino Dairy
Dec 2009 Milk transport Ada’a Dairy
negotiations
Co-op FAP
Co-op
ongoing
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Platforms based around NRM
Local
Research
research
National
NBDC NGO
Comm
Champio
Woreda n farmers
admin
Comm Comm
Woreda Private
water sector
Woreda
extension

Innovation
funds