Which place of agricultural advisory services among innovation support servci...ngouambe
This document examines the role of agricultural advisory services among innovation support services in Madagascar. It analyzes data from interviews with 115 organizations providing innovation support and characterizes 315 total support services. The results show advisory services, particularly technical advice and capacity building, predominantly make up the overall offer of innovation support services. However, supporting innovation requires a diversity of organization types and strategies, including specialization in advisory services, combining advisory with other supports, or collaborating to provide complementary services. Agricultural advisory is thus one important but not sole component of the complex system supporting agricultural innovation.
This document discusses the SERVInnov project, which aims to strengthen innovation support services to enhance sustainable food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project recognizes the diversity of multi-actor innovation communities in African agriculture but finds that existing innovation support services are fragmented and not fully accessible. Through participatory research, the project will map innovation support services, analyze networks of services and providers, and assess how to better match services to stakeholders' needs across different phases of innovation processes. Preliminary results show support services are concentrated in development phases for both social and technical innovations, but social innovations attract more services overall. The project seeks to ultimately increase the effectiveness of innovation support services across sectors and value chains.
Diversity of service situations for agri-food innovations in the global Sout...ngouambe
This document summarizes findings from case studies of agricultural innovation support services in Cameroon and Madagascar. 173 service situations across 8 innovations were identified and characterized. The innovations included socio-technical innovations like chicken vaccination and 24-hour cassava retting, as well as socio-organizational innovations like organic pineapple production and multi-stakeholder platforms. A diversity of service providers was found to be involved, with different providers specializing in certain services. Support was concentrated in the development phases of innovations and less common in dissemination. Socio-organizational innovations attracted more support services overall. Recommendations include boosting support for dissemination and soft skill services, as well as encouraging service diversification.
1. The Financing Challenge – Key Issues Identified
Sustainable finance question –
How should funds flow?
Who should pay?
Who can pay?
Why invest in this activity?
How to ensure control of spending?
How to measure impact of spending and performance of activities?
2. Conceptual Framework –
The Economic Nature of Extension Services
Value Perspective, Rates of Return
Willingness to Pay, Ability to Pay
3. Best Fit Approaches
This document discusses pluralism in agricultural extension systems. Pluralistic extension involves multiple providers of extension services, often with different funding sources and approaches. This can raise issues around coordination, roles, and competition/collaboration. The document provides examples of pluralistic extension in Ghana, the United States, and other countries. It also discusses reasons why multiple extension actors emerge and how pluralism affects extension management and implementation, such as the need for coordination between different groups.
Which place of agricultural advisory services among innovation support servci...ngouambe
This document examines the role of agricultural advisory services among innovation support services in Madagascar. It analyzes data from interviews with 115 organizations providing innovation support and characterizes 315 total support services. The results show advisory services, particularly technical advice and capacity building, predominantly make up the overall offer of innovation support services. However, supporting innovation requires a diversity of organization types and strategies, including specialization in advisory services, combining advisory with other supports, or collaborating to provide complementary services. Agricultural advisory is thus one important but not sole component of the complex system supporting agricultural innovation.
This document discusses the SERVInnov project, which aims to strengthen innovation support services to enhance sustainable food production in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project recognizes the diversity of multi-actor innovation communities in African agriculture but finds that existing innovation support services are fragmented and not fully accessible. Through participatory research, the project will map innovation support services, analyze networks of services and providers, and assess how to better match services to stakeholders' needs across different phases of innovation processes. Preliminary results show support services are concentrated in development phases for both social and technical innovations, but social innovations attract more services overall. The project seeks to ultimately increase the effectiveness of innovation support services across sectors and value chains.
Diversity of service situations for agri-food innovations in the global Sout...ngouambe
This document summarizes findings from case studies of agricultural innovation support services in Cameroon and Madagascar. 173 service situations across 8 innovations were identified and characterized. The innovations included socio-technical innovations like chicken vaccination and 24-hour cassava retting, as well as socio-organizational innovations like organic pineapple production and multi-stakeholder platforms. A diversity of service providers was found to be involved, with different providers specializing in certain services. Support was concentrated in the development phases of innovations and less common in dissemination. Socio-organizational innovations attracted more support services overall. Recommendations include boosting support for dissemination and soft skill services, as well as encouraging service diversification.
1. The Financing Challenge – Key Issues Identified
Sustainable finance question –
How should funds flow?
Who should pay?
Who can pay?
Why invest in this activity?
How to ensure control of spending?
How to measure impact of spending and performance of activities?
2. Conceptual Framework –
The Economic Nature of Extension Services
Value Perspective, Rates of Return
Willingness to Pay, Ability to Pay
3. Best Fit Approaches
This document discusses pluralism in agricultural extension systems. Pluralistic extension involves multiple providers of extension services, often with different funding sources and approaches. This can raise issues around coordination, roles, and competition/collaboration. The document provides examples of pluralistic extension in Ghana, the United States, and other countries. It also discusses reasons why multiple extension actors emerge and how pluralism affects extension management and implementation, such as the need for coordination between different groups.
HLG's presentation to the Oct 8, 2014 European Telemedicine ConferenceHerve LE GUYADER
This document discusses pilots of telemedicine projects in the Aquitaine region of France and the challenges of scaling them up regionally. It describes three pilot projects in nursing home teleconsultation, telestroke treatment, and a secure messaging platform for healthcare professionals. Barriers to wider adoption include economic issues, regulatory frameworks, institutional silos, and resistance to change. However, the region is taking a multi-pronged approach of promoting telemedicine in education, industry, practitioner communities, and through political support to help drive systemic organizational change and regional coordination of projects.
The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) was launched in 2013 to help member states maximize the benefits of mineral resources for development. It works with states and regional organizations on policies, strategies, and frameworks to align with the African Mining Vision's goal of prioritizing development. AMDC provides technical support, research, and advocacy across seven work streams including policy, geospatial data, governance, artisanal mining, linkages & investment, human capital, and communication. It aims to enhance capacity and leverage partnerships to enable mineral resources to contribute more to socioeconomic development in Africa.
Mary Kamau - Extension Policy, Kenya
Presentation given at the GFRAS side event on Rural Extension Policy, Manila 2012_09_25. More info at http://www.meas-extension.org/meas-offers/best-practice/policy
Farmers' Agribusiness Training Course: Module 1 Supplementary Reading. Agricu...PiLNAfrica
The objective of this study is to assess the range of alternative food crop and livestock extension services currently operating in Kenya. The study highlights five important findings: (1) private extension provision is generally
skewed towards high agricultural potential regions and high-value crops. Remote areas and poor producers, especially those growing low-value crops with little marketable surplus, are poorly served. Non-profit private providers are targeting them, but their reach is limited. (2) Since public resources for extension are very constrained, it may make sense for public extension
not to duplicate or overlap in the same areas that are being served more efficiently by commercial and non-profit systems. This would leave more public resources for concentrating extension services for farmers in areas that are remote and poorly served by the commercial systems. (3) However, the commercial and non-profit extension systems benefit from the
presence of the public extension service- they rely on public extension workers for training and
appropriate management advice. So even if the public extension system was to withdraw to the
more remote areas where private extension is unprofitable, it may be appropriate to institute
some type of commercial contracting of public extension system staff so that the latter can impart
needed skills and capacity building to the non-public extension systems. (4) The government
should consider contracting the private sector to offer extension services in the disadvantaged
regions. Contracting out extension services makes it possible to take advantage of all of the
talent and experience existing in the field but does not eliminate a government role which, in
addition to funding, ensures quality assurance, oversight, and provision of training and
information to contracted services providers. (5) The weight of evidence suggests, in most cases,
that private extension is not a substitute for public extension and the public sector should fund
extension significantly but in ways that do not duplicate services already being provided by
sustainable alternative extension providers.
By Arno Maatman, Mariana Wongtschowski, Willem Heemskerk, Nour Sellamna, Kristin Davis, Silim Nahdy, Washington Ochola, and Dan Kisauzi.
Presented at the ASTI-FARA conference Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa's Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities - Accra, Ghana on December 5-7, 2011. http://www.asti.cgiar.org/2011conf
This document discusses the privatization of agricultural extension services in India. It defines privatization as reducing the government's role and increasing private sector involvement. Currently, India's public extension system focuses more on rural development than agriculture and has weaknesses like poor farmer-to-extension worker ratios and ineffective services. Privatizing extension could introduce more demand-driven, higher quality services provided by private agencies or NGOs for a fee. However, most Indian farmers are small and marginal with limited resources, so the scope for privatization is limited. The document examines different privatization approaches and factors favoring or limiting privatization of agricultural extension in India.
The document discusses the privatization of agricultural extension in India. It notes that the current public sector system faces issues like poor coordination, lack of resources, and inability to meet diverse farmer needs. Privatization is presented as an option to address these issues by complementing public extension. Private extension stakeholders could include consultants, firms, progressive farmers, organizations, agribusinesses, and media. Approaches to privatization include farmers paying fees, levies on products, or membership fees. Strategies proposed are commercializing services, public-private partnerships, and gradual withdrawal of public extension. Advantages include tailored advice and accountability, while disadvantages are exclusion of small farmers and potential exploitation.
Presented by Christophe Besacier and Robin Chazdon during Enhancing restoration capacities in African drylands: A decade for action session of GLF Africa
Adrian Ely - Manifesto - Reflections on an (ongoing) experiment in the politi...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Session Governance - Building an institutional rwh environment - a schoemaker...IRC
1. The document discusses building an institutional framework for rainwater harvesting (RWH) through the RAIN model.
2. It outlines the required capacities and stakeholders at different levels, from users to suppliers to knowledge institutions, to successfully scale up RWH.
3. The RAIN model proposes a framework with a national coordination body, district implementing organizations, and local RWH centers to develop capacities, integrate RWH into policies and plans, and ensure sustainability.
The document discusses the Club of Ossiach, which focuses on adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture. The Club recognizes that ICT can support rural sustainability through innovations that benefit stakeholders across agricultural supply chains. The Club also sees opportunities for ICT to enable knowledge sharing and cooperative management of environmental and risk issues. The document proposes an ICT-enabled infrastructure and advisory model to help farmers, advisors and other stakeholders work together on integrated farm management, regional solutions, and establishing a national "trust center" for open data and partnerships. The aim is to promote inclusive and sustainable agriculture through coordinated ICT adoption and knowledge sharing.
Afaas presentation to afaas third symposium 2011Francis Kpodo
The document discusses the challenges facing African agricultural advisory services and the formation of the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) to address these challenges. Some of the key challenges include poverty in Africa, low agricultural productivity, poor market orientation, and ineffective advisory approaches. AFAAS was formed to provide a continental framework for institutional development, coordination of funding, information sharing of best practices, and multi-stakeholder collaboration around agricultural advisory services in Africa. AFAAS aims to make advisory services more innovative, market-oriented, and participatory through principles of information sharing, quality assurance, partnerships, and efficiency.
The document discusses challenges in providing sustainable water services at scale in developing countries. It notes that 30-40% of water systems fail, wasting financial investments. It analyzes reasons for failures, such as an infrastructure focus rather than a service delivery approach. The document advocates adopting principles for policy, financing, planning, and coordination across local, national and international levels to establish long-term sustainable water services.
Providing Sustainable Services at Scale (IRC & Aguaconsult)IRC
The document discusses challenges in providing sustainable water services at scale in developing countries. It notes that 30-40% of water systems fail, wasting financial investments. It analyzes reasons for failures like an infrastructure focus rather than service delivery, lack of sector capacity building and support, and poor coordination. The document advocates adopting a service delivery approach with principles like clear roles, planning, learning, appropriate technology, long-term support and oversight to achieve sustainable services at scale.
Role of Extension in Agricultural Innovation Systems_Kristin Davis IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Kristin Davis, executive secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) who coordinates PIM’s research on rural advisory services.
This is the final version of the online forum on Smart Subsidies for the promotion of vibrant and sustainable Agricultural Knowledge and Information (AKI) Services. The discussion was hosted by The Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) in March 2010.
Promoting Innovation in Clusters - Foundation for MSME Clusters (FMC).pdfTheBambooLink
This is a policy guidebook aspires to provide roadmap for cluster practitioners, development organizations, donor institutions and government agencies working towards promoting innovations in MSME clusters. It offers a practical approach and flexible framework for implementing an innovation promotion project in clusters, thus paving way for new frontiers of knowledge to develop innovative clusters.
HLG's presentation to the Oct 8, 2014 European Telemedicine ConferenceHerve LE GUYADER
This document discusses pilots of telemedicine projects in the Aquitaine region of France and the challenges of scaling them up regionally. It describes three pilot projects in nursing home teleconsultation, telestroke treatment, and a secure messaging platform for healthcare professionals. Barriers to wider adoption include economic issues, regulatory frameworks, institutional silos, and resistance to change. However, the region is taking a multi-pronged approach of promoting telemedicine in education, industry, practitioner communities, and through political support to help drive systemic organizational change and regional coordination of projects.
The African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) was launched in 2013 to help member states maximize the benefits of mineral resources for development. It works with states and regional organizations on policies, strategies, and frameworks to align with the African Mining Vision's goal of prioritizing development. AMDC provides technical support, research, and advocacy across seven work streams including policy, geospatial data, governance, artisanal mining, linkages & investment, human capital, and communication. It aims to enhance capacity and leverage partnerships to enable mineral resources to contribute more to socioeconomic development in Africa.
Mary Kamau - Extension Policy, Kenya
Presentation given at the GFRAS side event on Rural Extension Policy, Manila 2012_09_25. More info at http://www.meas-extension.org/meas-offers/best-practice/policy
Farmers' Agribusiness Training Course: Module 1 Supplementary Reading. Agricu...PiLNAfrica
The objective of this study is to assess the range of alternative food crop and livestock extension services currently operating in Kenya. The study highlights five important findings: (1) private extension provision is generally
skewed towards high agricultural potential regions and high-value crops. Remote areas and poor producers, especially those growing low-value crops with little marketable surplus, are poorly served. Non-profit private providers are targeting them, but their reach is limited. (2) Since public resources for extension are very constrained, it may make sense for public extension
not to duplicate or overlap in the same areas that are being served more efficiently by commercial and non-profit systems. This would leave more public resources for concentrating extension services for farmers in areas that are remote and poorly served by the commercial systems. (3) However, the commercial and non-profit extension systems benefit from the
presence of the public extension service- they rely on public extension workers for training and
appropriate management advice. So even if the public extension system was to withdraw to the
more remote areas where private extension is unprofitable, it may be appropriate to institute
some type of commercial contracting of public extension system staff so that the latter can impart
needed skills and capacity building to the non-public extension systems. (4) The government
should consider contracting the private sector to offer extension services in the disadvantaged
regions. Contracting out extension services makes it possible to take advantage of all of the
talent and experience existing in the field but does not eliminate a government role which, in
addition to funding, ensures quality assurance, oversight, and provision of training and
information to contracted services providers. (5) The weight of evidence suggests, in most cases,
that private extension is not a substitute for public extension and the public sector should fund
extension significantly but in ways that do not duplicate services already being provided by
sustainable alternative extension providers.
By Arno Maatman, Mariana Wongtschowski, Willem Heemskerk, Nour Sellamna, Kristin Davis, Silim Nahdy, Washington Ochola, and Dan Kisauzi.
Presented at the ASTI-FARA conference Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa's Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities - Accra, Ghana on December 5-7, 2011. http://www.asti.cgiar.org/2011conf
This document discusses the privatization of agricultural extension services in India. It defines privatization as reducing the government's role and increasing private sector involvement. Currently, India's public extension system focuses more on rural development than agriculture and has weaknesses like poor farmer-to-extension worker ratios and ineffective services. Privatizing extension could introduce more demand-driven, higher quality services provided by private agencies or NGOs for a fee. However, most Indian farmers are small and marginal with limited resources, so the scope for privatization is limited. The document examines different privatization approaches and factors favoring or limiting privatization of agricultural extension in India.
The document discusses the privatization of agricultural extension in India. It notes that the current public sector system faces issues like poor coordination, lack of resources, and inability to meet diverse farmer needs. Privatization is presented as an option to address these issues by complementing public extension. Private extension stakeholders could include consultants, firms, progressive farmers, organizations, agribusinesses, and media. Approaches to privatization include farmers paying fees, levies on products, or membership fees. Strategies proposed are commercializing services, public-private partnerships, and gradual withdrawal of public extension. Advantages include tailored advice and accountability, while disadvantages are exclusion of small farmers and potential exploitation.
Presented by Christophe Besacier and Robin Chazdon during Enhancing restoration capacities in African drylands: A decade for action session of GLF Africa
Adrian Ely - Manifesto - Reflections on an (ongoing) experiment in the politi...STEPS Centre
Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
http://www.steps-centre.org/events/stepsconference2010.html
Session Governance - Building an institutional rwh environment - a schoemaker...IRC
1. The document discusses building an institutional framework for rainwater harvesting (RWH) through the RAIN model.
2. It outlines the required capacities and stakeholders at different levels, from users to suppliers to knowledge institutions, to successfully scale up RWH.
3. The RAIN model proposes a framework with a national coordination body, district implementing organizations, and local RWH centers to develop capacities, integrate RWH into policies and plans, and ensure sustainability.
The document discusses the Club of Ossiach, which focuses on adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture. The Club recognizes that ICT can support rural sustainability through innovations that benefit stakeholders across agricultural supply chains. The Club also sees opportunities for ICT to enable knowledge sharing and cooperative management of environmental and risk issues. The document proposes an ICT-enabled infrastructure and advisory model to help farmers, advisors and other stakeholders work together on integrated farm management, regional solutions, and establishing a national "trust center" for open data and partnerships. The aim is to promote inclusive and sustainable agriculture through coordinated ICT adoption and knowledge sharing.
Afaas presentation to afaas third symposium 2011Francis Kpodo
The document discusses the challenges facing African agricultural advisory services and the formation of the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) to address these challenges. Some of the key challenges include poverty in Africa, low agricultural productivity, poor market orientation, and ineffective advisory approaches. AFAAS was formed to provide a continental framework for institutional development, coordination of funding, information sharing of best practices, and multi-stakeholder collaboration around agricultural advisory services in Africa. AFAAS aims to make advisory services more innovative, market-oriented, and participatory through principles of information sharing, quality assurance, partnerships, and efficiency.
The document discusses challenges in providing sustainable water services at scale in developing countries. It notes that 30-40% of water systems fail, wasting financial investments. It analyzes reasons for failures, such as an infrastructure focus rather than a service delivery approach. The document advocates adopting principles for policy, financing, planning, and coordination across local, national and international levels to establish long-term sustainable water services.
Providing Sustainable Services at Scale (IRC & Aguaconsult)IRC
The document discusses challenges in providing sustainable water services at scale in developing countries. It notes that 30-40% of water systems fail, wasting financial investments. It analyzes reasons for failures like an infrastructure focus rather than service delivery, lack of sector capacity building and support, and poor coordination. The document advocates adopting a service delivery approach with principles like clear roles, planning, learning, appropriate technology, long-term support and oversight to achieve sustainable services at scale.
Role of Extension in Agricultural Innovation Systems_Kristin Davis IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Kristin Davis, executive secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) who coordinates PIM’s research on rural advisory services.
This is the final version of the online forum on Smart Subsidies for the promotion of vibrant and sustainable Agricultural Knowledge and Information (AKI) Services. The discussion was hosted by The Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) in March 2010.
Promoting Innovation in Clusters - Foundation for MSME Clusters (FMC).pdfTheBambooLink
This is a policy guidebook aspires to provide roadmap for cluster practitioners, development organizations, donor institutions and government agencies working towards promoting innovations in MSME clusters. It offers a practical approach and flexible framework for implementing an innovation promotion project in clusters, thus paving way for new frontiers of knowledge to develop innovative clusters.
The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock: Value proposition and modes of d...ILRI
Presented by Shirley Tarawali at the 8th Multi Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) meeting of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 11-15 June 2018
HIMSS Asia-Pacific India Chapter__PreConf-Brochure 2amit gaonkar
The document summarizes an upcoming India Digital Healthcare Summit 2015 organized by HIMSS. HIMSS is a global not-for-profit organization focused on improving health through information technology. The 2-day summit in August 2015 in Gurgaon, India will bring together stakeholders from government, healthcare providers, life sciences, and IT companies to discuss best practices and latest tools to enhance healthcare outcomes through IT. The event will provide networking opportunities and insights into emerging trends and technologies in healthcare IT in India.
role of non governmental organisation in rural development and agricultural e...krishnadk
This document discusses various Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) involved in agricultural extension and rural development in India. It provides classifications of NGOs based on orientation and level of operation. It also outlines the roles, approaches, activities and constraints of NGOs. Several prominent NGOs working in agriculture and rural development in India are described, including their objectives, areas of work and special features. The document emphasizes the important role of NGOs in filling gaps in government services and empowering rural communities.
I am serving as social sector consultant and we are serving in microfinance, health, education, housing, agriculture, livestock, gender issues, women based micro entrepreneurs, human rights and many other fields.
Is the “Cooperative Life Cycle” Framework Relevant for Rural Africa?CIAT
The document summarizes research on the evolution and impact of cooperative organizations in rural Africa. It outlines that cooperatives have transitioned from being community-based and defensive under colonialism to being state/donor-driven during nationalism to now being more market-driven. Research shows cooperatives have had a positive impact on productivity and technology adoption in countries like Ethiopia, Senegal, and Ghana. However, issues like elite capture, shirking of responsibilities by members, and low levels of collective commercialization persist in many cooperatives. The document discusses challenges in cooperative governance and proposes a framework to improve internal governance through training and targeting of external incentives. It outlines the EDC project's work in research, outreach and building
Here are some key points innovators highlighted about interacting with trendscouts:
- Create an environment of trust. Innovators are skeptical about sharing their ideas without proper protections.
- Clearly communicate your values upfront. Make collaboration, openness, sharing and trust central to how you operate.
- Move from an "egosystem" mindset to an "ecosystem" mindset. The focus should be on mutually beneficial relationships and community building rather than just your own goals.
- Respect intellectual property rights. Ensure innovators feel confident their ideas will be properly protected and promoted, not exploited.
- Consider joining a local ICT association. This can help address issues professionally and curb potential problems like
This is the final draft of the discussion document on subsidies for agricultural knowledge and information services.
This document will be used to kick start a series of featured discussions in MaFI.
The document was produced by MaFI's Subsidies Learning Team in 2009 and 2010
This document discusses social entrepreneurship and the role it plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It notes that entrepreneurship creates jobs, drives economic growth, addresses environmental challenges, and enables youth engagement. The document then summarizes some global trends in social enterprise ecosystems, including growing awareness, more corporations engaging, and increasing access to capital and markets. It provides examples of industries social enterprises focus on and discusses impact investing assets under management. Finally, it discusses the work of Impact Hubs in building collaborative communities, providing support to startups, and developing social enterprise ecosystems.
Aidf Africa Summit 2016 - Speaker BrochureSonjaRue
Summits by the Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF) are timely, high profile meetings, bringing together humanitarian and development experts, influencers, investors, thought leaders, policy makers and entrepreneurs.
If you have a compelling case study or research to share, one that will inspire and inform other senior development leaders and decision makers, one that goes to the heart of how the world is changing, then we have an exclusive audience eager to hear from you. Our speakers are themselves senior directors, thought leaders and experts from all stakeholders involved in development and aid outcomes. They are authoritative figures who are leading change by creating new ideas and initiatives, innovations and services.
In all countries, viable businesses constitute a guarantee for economic growth and development. Therefore, accompaniment, which is imposed on public authorities, is an important element for the sustainability and success of businesses. Because business creation is assumed to be the cornerstone of economic development, the viability of businesses is necessary for the establishment of effective accompaniment structures, which crucially necessitates supporting its development. The objective of the current paper is to analyze the measures of support and accompaniment of entrepreneurs and to identify the various aids available in the region of Sfax which constitutes an important economic center in Tunisia. To reach this end, semistructured interviews were submitted to 27 agents of business intervention and consultants in entrepreneurship management. The methodological investigation revolves around the following two dimensions: types and needs of interventions and resources placed at their disposal. The results of this research have highlighted the need for the training of the accompanying interveners and greater personalization of tools offered to them.
Presented by Jens A. Andersson (CIMMYT), Elias Damtew (ILRI) and Zelalem Lema (ILRI) at the Africa RISING Learning Event, Arusha, Tanzania, 11-12 November 2014
Social Innovation Generation (SiG) is a national initiative with four nodes across Canada aimed at encouraging effective methods to address persistent social problems on a large scale. SiG@MaRS in Ontario develops programs to support social ventures, enhance skills/networks of social entrepreneurs, explore social finance instruments, and build the social enterprise community. SiG@MaRS fosters innovation to help social ventures scale and challenges traditional views of social change work.
The document discusses strategies for attracting key actors to support the ATIS4all project. It identifies groups of key actors, such as research institutes and manufacturers. It proposes using the project website to create a supporter section and provide information on becoming a supporter. The document also suggests dissemination activities and defines a process for organizations to become supporters. Each partner is encouraged to promote ATIS4all through their own websites, conferences, newsletters and presentations to attract additional supporters.
Representatives from the waste management industry met to discuss health, safety and welfare challenges. They identified key issues and proposed actions. The WISH steering group developed five strategy areas and action plans to address the challenges. The action plans establish working groups to develop guidance, share best practices, support SMEs and create healthier workplaces. Implementation of the plans will require industry participation and support.
The document is an executive summary of the report "Digital Planet 2010" published by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA). It provides an overview of global ICT trends and forecasts spending on information and communications technologies (ICT) in 75 countries between 2009-2014. Key findings include that global ICT spending contracted 3% in 2009 due to the financial crisis but is expected to rebound starting in 2010 with 7.4% growth and peak at 8.7% in 2011 as pent-up demand is unleashed. Overall ICT spending is projected to return to pre-recession levels by 2013.
Innovation systems perspective and Value Chains Approach for development: Con...ILRI
This document discusses integrating an innovation systems perspective and value chains approach for development. It defines key concepts like innovation systems, value chains, and the impact pathway. It argues that considering both innovation systems and value chains allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the actors, knowledge systems, and activities involved in commodity development. Looking at innovation possibilities across an entire value chain, from input supply to production to marketing, can help identify intervention points to enhance productivity, profitability and development outcomes.
BioTalk_May 2016_CAMTech_Ms Elizabeth Bailey_Raj Gunashekar_P40-44Raj Gunashekar
1) CAMTech aims to accelerate medical innovation and entrepreneurship in low and middle income countries like India to address healthcare challenges.
2) In India, CAMTech focuses on challenges related to reproductive, maternal, and child health like newborn survival and safe births. It also addresses diabetes.
3) CAMTech works with partners in India to host events like hackathons that crowdsource innovations to solve clinical problems. Promising solutions receive funding and support through CAMTech's incubation resources.
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ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
ESA/ACT Science Coffee: Diego Blas - Gravitational wave detection with orbita...Advanced-Concepts-Team
Presentation in the Science Coffee of the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency on the 07.06.2024.
Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE/ICREA)
Title: Gravitational wave detection with orbital motion of Moon and artificial
Abstract:
In this talk I will describe some recent ideas to find gravitational waves from supermassive black holes or of primordial origin by studying their secular effect on the orbital motion of the Moon or satellites that are laser ranged.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
PPT on Direct Seeded Rice presented at the three-day 'Training and Validation Workshop on Modules of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Technologies in South Asia' workshop on April 22, 2024.
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
Unlocking the mysteries of reproduction: Exploring fecundity and gonadosomati...AbdullaAlAsif1
The pygmy halfbeak Dermogenys colletei, is known for its viviparous nature, this presents an intriguing case of relatively low fecundity, raising questions about potential compensatory reproductive strategies employed by this species. Our study delves into the examination of fecundity and the Gonadosomatic Index (GSI) in the Pygmy Halfbeak, D. colletei (Meisner, 2001), an intriguing viviparous fish indigenous to Sarawak, Borneo. We hypothesize that the Pygmy halfbeak, D. colletei, may exhibit unique reproductive adaptations to offset its low fecundity, thus enhancing its survival and fitness. To address this, we conducted a comprehensive study utilizing 28 mature female specimens of D. colletei, carefully measuring fecundity and GSI to shed light on the reproductive adaptations of this species. Our findings reveal that D. colletei indeed exhibits low fecundity, with a mean of 16.76 ± 2.01, and a mean GSI of 12.83 ± 1.27, providing crucial insights into the reproductive mechanisms at play in this species. These results underscore the existence of unique reproductive strategies in D. colletei, enabling its adaptation and persistence in Borneo's diverse aquatic ecosystems, and call for further ecological research to elucidate these mechanisms. This study lends to a better understanding of viviparous fish in Borneo and contributes to the broader field of aquatic ecology, enhancing our knowledge of species adaptations to unique ecological challenges.
Unlocking the mysteries of reproduction: Exploring fecundity and gonadosomati...
Advisory services iss_audouin_al2021
1. Which place of agricultural advisory services among innovation support
services in Madagascar?
Sarah Audouin(CIRAD/FOFIFA), Patrick Dugué (CIRAD), Narilala Randrianarisona (ESSA), Hycenth Tim Ndah (UHOH), Tovo Ratsimbazafy
(FIFATA), Harilala Andriamaniraka (ESSA), Edson S. Noharinjanaharya (ESSA), Noroseheno Ralisoa (FCA),Syndhia Mathé (CIRAD)
Extracts from the published article (Open Access)
Audouin S, et al. 2021. Quelle place du conseil agricole dans les services support à l’innovation à
Madagascar ? Cahiers Agricultures. 30: 29. https://doi.org/10.1051/cagri/2021017
2. Advisory services are the main activity proposed
by organisations to support innovation,
Innovation Support Services = a set of
activities provided to innovation communities
(farmers, entrepreners, associations, etc.) in order to
enhance their innovation process : trainings for
capacity building activities, political lobbying,
networking, contract farming to access a niche
market, support to elaborate coaching plans with
entrepreners, etc.
• METHOD : 100 organizations interviewed in
Madagascar, their main ISS characterized.
• RESULTS : Advisory ISS (technical and capacity
building) predomine the offer of ISS.
3. What kind of organisation provide advisory services and capacity
building ?
Small part of public organisations and NGOs are specialized into technical advice, otherwise many other
organisations (and 100% of farmers’ organisation) combine technical advice with other type of ISS.
However most organisations do not provide any capacity building ISS.
Farmers organisations are the main organisations providing capacity building and technical advices
Type of ISS provider
No technical
advice
(%)
technical advice
+ no other ISS
(%)
technical advice
+ other ISS
(%)
no capacity
building
(%)
capacity building
+ no other ISS
(%)
capacity building +
technical advice
(%)
Public organisation 48 14 38 97 0 0
Research organisation 40 0 60 80 0 20
NGO, association 27 13 60 80 0 13
private sector 64 0 36 89 0 4
Farmers’ organisation 0 0 100 33 0 67
R&D project 18 6 76 59 0 18
Key message : While being the predominant activity to support innovation, advisory services are associated
to other supporting activities
highlights divers strategies (specialization, diversification, external collaboration).
calls for further researches and reflexivity to picture advisory services within the whole frame of Innovation
Support Services and within the network of organisations involved in the innovation process.
Editor's Notes
particularly private sector (when specialized into other ISS), research or public organisation.