Presented by Allan Liavoga at the Regional Experts Workshop on Development, Regulation and Use of Bio-pesticides in East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 22–23 May 2014
The document discusses socio-technical innovation bundles for transforming agri-food systems. It recommends developing innovation packages that combine products, capacity building, and policy work with partners. These packages will form the basis for assessing projected benefits, risks, and scaling readiness. The goal is to identify bottlenecks preventing scaling and develop strategies to overcome them, moving from single innovations to portfolios of packages that can transform entire systems when implemented at scale.
North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of ...Francois Stepman
29 March 2021. INTPA INFOPOINT North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of food systems
This InfoPoint conference co-organised between the European Commission and Agrinatura showed perspective on the role of research and education to contribute to the green transformation of food systems, in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and in line with the European Green Deal.
Marc Duponcel, Head of Research Sector, Research and Innovation, European Commission, DG AGRI
African Landscapes Action Plan: Process and Results in TanzaniaFMNR Hub
This document summarizes the African Landscapes Action Plan process and results in Tanzania. It identifies key problems in the target landscapes like environmental degradation, resource conflicts, food insecurity and water scarcity. The process involved identifying stakeholders, raising awareness of integrated landscape management, and prioritizing innovations through workshops. This led to the development of a multi-stakeholder integrated landscape management platform representing different sectors and organizations. 50 total innovations were identified across areas like crop/livestock production, nature conservation, markets and policy. Selected innovations that will be taken forward include village land use planning, strengthening innovation platforms, pastoral production intensification, promoting apiculture, adapting the System of Rice Intensification, and initiating eco-labeling of landscape
Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative Scaling Action 2015-2017FMNR Hub
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is a global collaboration of over 60 strategic partners working to promote integrated agricultural landscape management. The initiative has six working groups and seeks to achieve multiple objectives across sectors through multi-stakeholder processes. Some of its program components include strengthening landscape initiatives, building an enabling policy environment, mobilizing evidence on integrated landscape management, and raising awareness. The initiative has identified 365 integrated landscape initiatives worldwide and conducted over 20 reviews on landscape management practices.
North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of ...Francois Stepman
29 March 2021. INTPA INFOPOINT North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of food systems
This InfoPoint conference co-organised between the European Commission and Agrinatura showed perspective on the role of research and education to contribute to the green transformation of food systems, in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and in line with the European Green Deal.
Carolyn Glynn, President Agrinatura and Head of Department Crop Production Ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
This document summarizes lessons learned from the PAEPARD program, which built partnerships between African and European stakeholders in agricultural research for development. It discusses four instruments the program used: consortia between researchers and users, incentive funds for consortia, competitive funds, and communication/capacity strengthening. Key lessons included: partnerships require time to build trust; funding is necessary but not sufficient for innovation - small funds can trigger innovation; capacity for dialogue and communication are important for successful partnerships; and ownership of partnerships is still an issue.
Open agricultural and nutrition data can help address global hunger, poverty, and innovation challenges. GODAN is a global open data network with over 260 partners that encourages collaboration and sharing of open agricultural and nutrition data. The GODAN story began in 2012 with G8 commitments to share agricultural data with African partners. GODAN was officially launched in 2013 and holds various events to build momentum around open data. Working groups address specific data issues and case studies showcase successes. The 2016 GODAN Summit in New York will bring together leaders to highlight open data stories and applications through an open data challenge.
The document discusses socio-technical innovation bundles for transforming agri-food systems. It recommends developing innovation packages that combine products, capacity building, and policy work with partners. These packages will form the basis for assessing projected benefits, risks, and scaling readiness. The goal is to identify bottlenecks preventing scaling and develop strategies to overcome them, moving from single innovations to portfolios of packages that can transform entire systems when implemented at scale.
North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of ...Francois Stepman
29 March 2021. INTPA INFOPOINT North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of food systems
This InfoPoint conference co-organised between the European Commission and Agrinatura showed perspective on the role of research and education to contribute to the green transformation of food systems, in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and in line with the European Green Deal.
Marc Duponcel, Head of Research Sector, Research and Innovation, European Commission, DG AGRI
African Landscapes Action Plan: Process and Results in TanzaniaFMNR Hub
This document summarizes the African Landscapes Action Plan process and results in Tanzania. It identifies key problems in the target landscapes like environmental degradation, resource conflicts, food insecurity and water scarcity. The process involved identifying stakeholders, raising awareness of integrated landscape management, and prioritizing innovations through workshops. This led to the development of a multi-stakeholder integrated landscape management platform representing different sectors and organizations. 50 total innovations were identified across areas like crop/livestock production, nature conservation, markets and policy. Selected innovations that will be taken forward include village land use planning, strengthening innovation platforms, pastoral production intensification, promoting apiculture, adapting the System of Rice Intensification, and initiating eco-labeling of landscape
Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative Scaling Action 2015-2017FMNR Hub
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is a global collaboration of over 60 strategic partners working to promote integrated agricultural landscape management. The initiative has six working groups and seeks to achieve multiple objectives across sectors through multi-stakeholder processes. Some of its program components include strengthening landscape initiatives, building an enabling policy environment, mobilizing evidence on integrated landscape management, and raising awareness. The initiative has identified 365 integrated landscape initiatives worldwide and conducted over 20 reviews on landscape management practices.
North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of ...Francois Stepman
29 March 2021. INTPA INFOPOINT North-South partnership in research and education for the transformation of food systems
This InfoPoint conference co-organised between the European Commission and Agrinatura showed perspective on the role of research and education to contribute to the green transformation of food systems, in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and in line with the European Green Deal.
Carolyn Glynn, President Agrinatura and Head of Department Crop Production Ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
This document summarizes lessons learned from the PAEPARD program, which built partnerships between African and European stakeholders in agricultural research for development. It discusses four instruments the program used: consortia between researchers and users, incentive funds for consortia, competitive funds, and communication/capacity strengthening. Key lessons included: partnerships require time to build trust; funding is necessary but not sufficient for innovation - small funds can trigger innovation; capacity for dialogue and communication are important for successful partnerships; and ownership of partnerships is still an issue.
Open agricultural and nutrition data can help address global hunger, poverty, and innovation challenges. GODAN is a global open data network with over 260 partners that encourages collaboration and sharing of open agricultural and nutrition data. The GODAN story began in 2012 with G8 commitments to share agricultural data with African partners. GODAN was officially launched in 2013 and holds various events to build momentum around open data. Working groups address specific data issues and case studies showcase successes. The 2016 GODAN Summit in New York will bring together leaders to highlight open data stories and applications through an open data challenge.
Results of Landscapes for People, Food & Nature in Africa FMNR Hub
The document summarizes the African Landscapes Action Plan that resulted from the "Landscapes for People, Food & Nature in Africa" conference in April 2015. It discusses the organization of the conference, participants, and process which included plenary sessions, country policy panels, tools demonstrations, and parallel working sessions. Six key action themes were identified: Policy Action Plans, Governance Action Plans, Business Action Plans, Finance Action Plans, Research Action Plans, and Capacity Development Action Plans. Each action plan listed specific next steps. The document concludes by outlining next steps for forming a steering committee and strategic advisory group to guide collaborative action on the plans.
GODAN Presentation at 2016 Thought for Food SummitgodanSec
The document discusses challenges related to global food security such as rising populations, depleting fish stocks, fresh water shortages, land degradation, and climate change. It describes how open data has the potential to help address these problems through more effective governance, improved services, better targeted programs, and improved research. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative believes these challenges can be partially solved through better use of open data. GODAN convenes key actors, advocates for policies, and equips partners with tools and examples to empower open data sharing in agriculture.
1. Important agricultural and nutrition datasets should be considered global public goods and made available to everyone to enable more efficient decision making, foster innovation, and drive transparency and progress.
2. The GODAN Secretariat aims to convene, equip, and empower through developing an Agriculture Sector Package focused on four main themes: agricultural productivity, sustainable food production, access to market information, and agricultural investment and innovation.
3. The package will identify core dataset categories, exemplar datasets and sources, relevant standards, and use cases to guide supporters in adopting open data principles and identifying missing data needs.
This presentation introduced and kicked off the East African Learning Landscape Regional Knowledge Exchange, at the African Institute for Capacity Development at Jomo Kenyatta University on June 2-3, 2015.
For more information, see: http://bit.ly/1KtnN0S
Presentation for the Delivering from Data panel session at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)'s Going the Last Mile: Accelerating Progress in Food Security and Nutrition event
https://www.ifpri.org/event/going-last-mile-accelerating-progress-food-security-and-nutrition
Concept of collaborative and open innovation approaches for development of ag...WirelessInfo
The document discusses the vision and objectives of the FOODIE4Africa initiative, which aims to use a collaborative living lab approach to connect communities in Africa with researchers and data providers in Europe. The goal is to integrate big and open data for agriculture to develop new applications focused on African realities. Key objectives include forming a FOODIE4Africa living lab based on co-creation, effectively using ICT technologies and open/big data, implementing a requirements-driven toolkit, ensuring utilization of existing data sets, and building a sustainable long-term model for open/big data use in African agriculture, forestry, and rural development.
This document provides guidance on multi-actor projects and thematic networks funded through the EU's Horizon 2020 program. It emphasizes that these projects should have practical applicability by involving stakeholders like farmers and advisors throughout the project. For multi-actor projects, it stresses demonstrating relevance to end-user needs, complementarity with existing research, and sufficient involvement of actors with different types of knowledge. Thematic networks are expected to compile existing scientific and best practice knowledge not widely known or used by practitioners, and produce dissemination materials like practice abstracts accessible to farmers.
This document discusses a participatory landscape labeling approach to support integrated landscape management. The approach is producer-driven and aims to capture value for consumers by highlighting unique landscape attributes and best practices. It involves introducing landscape labeling, conducting market analysis, strengthening farmer networks, establishing quality standards, and developing a marketing strategy. The case study focuses on a landscape labeling project in the Lari region of Kenya that includes workshops on market opportunities and capacity development, on-farm consultations, business plan development, and a mini-grant fund to support the plans.
This document summarizes the key achievements and next steps of the United Nations informal Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (SPHS). It outlines several tools and resources the SPHS has developed to promote more sustainable procurement practices, including a tool for monitoring compliance with international environmental conventions on chemicals, an environmental questionnaire for suppliers, and an online knowledge hub on best practices. It notes that future work will include implementing these tools across UN agencies and developing additional resources like a social questionnaire and training programs. The overall goal is to leverage the UN's role in procurement to lower the environmental impact and improve human health and well-being.
The document discusses partnering with the private sector to promote sustainable forest management and natural capital. It outlines UNDP's private sector strategy and focuses on the Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM) which uses a value chain approach to support inclusive business models in food value chains. AFIM provides catalytic grants to projects targeting smallholder farmers and aims to benefit over 11,000 people annually. It also discusses mainstreaming sustainability and resilience in food value chains and commodity supply chains through multi-stakeholder platforms and national commodity platforms.
This presentation addresses the financing gap in food systems with a focus on scaling finance for the food system transformation. The presentation was held by Andre de Jager, Managing Director, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, at the Food Systems Finance Advantage event, part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 series at COP24.
The document outlines an ACIAR workshop on sustainable impact through international agricultural research collaboration. The workshop will feature presentations from project leaders on ACIAR projects related to food security, vegetables, and cropping systems. It provides background on ACIAR's vision, mission, research model, projects, partners, and reviews showing economic and adoption impacts in countries like Afghanistan. It discusses ACIAR's focus on research that improves productivity and livelihoods sustainably, and adapting partnerships based on an independent review to engage more with the private sector and NGOs.
The document discusses resource efficient and cleaner production (RECP), which is defined as the continuous application of an integrated, preventive environmental strategy towards processes, products and services to increase efficiency and reduce risks to humans and the environment. RECP aims to identify where companies are losing resources in the form of waste and pollution in order to minimize these losses and improve productivity.
Presentation at our ESPP – IFOAM EU stakeholder meeting Closing nutrient cycles and uptake of recycled fertilisers (12/12/2018)
See all outputs of the stakeholder meeting at our ESPP website: http://www.phosphorusplatform.eu/organic-agriculture
The document discusses partnerships between GIZ and CGIAR for agricultural research and development. It proposes taking the R4D (research for development) continuum seriously by jointly planning activities between research organizations like CGIAR and development organizations like GIZ. It provides examples of past projects on rice in India and fruit trees in Southern Africa. It also shows tables of partnerships between different CGIAR centers and GIZ projects, and a list of current projects between CGIAR and GIZ in various countries that focus on issues like soil protection, livestock, and cocoa intensification. To strengthen partnerships, it recommends co-creating and co-implementing scaling activities, continuing technology assessments, and creating a product and technology database.
Sharing open data and capacity development experiences from RCMRDGODAN Secretariat
Earth observation data plays a critical role in building resilience to climate change as well as reporting on sustainable development goals (SDG’s). There are new opportunities to use open data in earth observation such as Landsat and the Sentinel data. Modern day farming relies on weather information in order to plan ahead of extreme weather conditions such as drought and floods. In addition, there is need to invest in hydromet services to build resilience to climate change and help citizens with accurate weather forecasts.
In this webinar, Dr Kenneth Mubea (the Capacity Development Lead) at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) shares some of the experiences and projects that RCMRD are involved in various open data initiatives in Agriculture. RCMRD’s mission is to promote sustainable development using earth observation and thus SDG’s. RCMRD is an inter-governmental organization established in 1975 (Nairobi, Kenya) and currently has 20 Contracting Member States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Regions.
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 59 on “Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and IPES-FOOD was held on Wednesday 15 January 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing brought various perspectives and experiences on agroecological systems to support agricultural transformation. Experts presented trends and prospects for agroecological approaches and what it implies for the future of the food systems. Successes and innovative models in agroecology in different parts of the world and the lessons learned for upscaling them were also discussed.
Regional initiatives to promote biosciences innovation: The BioInnovate Progr...ILRI
The Bio-Innovate Program is a regional initiative established in 2010 to promote biosciences innovations in Eastern Africa. It focuses on strengthening agriculture, developing innovative waste treatment technologies, and enhancing policy. The program comprises 9 projects across 6 countries involving 57 institutions. It has developed an integrated wastewater treatment system using anaerobic digesters, aerobic digesters, and constructed wetlands to produce biogas and biofertilizers. This system has been piloted successfully at industries in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania. Going forward, the Bio-Innovate Program aims to scale up promising innovations and deepen private sector partnerships.
This document summarizes four presentations from a side event at CFS 43 on adopting new technologies to improve food security and agriculture. The first presentation discussed using spectral methods to rapidly diagnose soil micronutrient deficiencies in Africa. The second presented a pilot project in Somalia that combines basic research capacity building with farmer participation. The third discussed how the Tanzania Horticultural Association encourages farmers in Zanzibar to adopt innovations like drip irrigation, greenhouses, and solar pumps. The final presentation was about the GloCal nutrition project, which uses educational videos and mobile apps to promote maternal and child nutrition in Kenya.
Results of Landscapes for People, Food & Nature in Africa FMNR Hub
The document summarizes the African Landscapes Action Plan that resulted from the "Landscapes for People, Food & Nature in Africa" conference in April 2015. It discusses the organization of the conference, participants, and process which included plenary sessions, country policy panels, tools demonstrations, and parallel working sessions. Six key action themes were identified: Policy Action Plans, Governance Action Plans, Business Action Plans, Finance Action Plans, Research Action Plans, and Capacity Development Action Plans. Each action plan listed specific next steps. The document concludes by outlining next steps for forming a steering committee and strategic advisory group to guide collaborative action on the plans.
GODAN Presentation at 2016 Thought for Food SummitgodanSec
The document discusses challenges related to global food security such as rising populations, depleting fish stocks, fresh water shortages, land degradation, and climate change. It describes how open data has the potential to help address these problems through more effective governance, improved services, better targeted programs, and improved research. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative believes these challenges can be partially solved through better use of open data. GODAN convenes key actors, advocates for policies, and equips partners with tools and examples to empower open data sharing in agriculture.
1. Important agricultural and nutrition datasets should be considered global public goods and made available to everyone to enable more efficient decision making, foster innovation, and drive transparency and progress.
2. The GODAN Secretariat aims to convene, equip, and empower through developing an Agriculture Sector Package focused on four main themes: agricultural productivity, sustainable food production, access to market information, and agricultural investment and innovation.
3. The package will identify core dataset categories, exemplar datasets and sources, relevant standards, and use cases to guide supporters in adopting open data principles and identifying missing data needs.
This presentation introduced and kicked off the East African Learning Landscape Regional Knowledge Exchange, at the African Institute for Capacity Development at Jomo Kenyatta University on June 2-3, 2015.
For more information, see: http://bit.ly/1KtnN0S
Presentation for the Delivering from Data panel session at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)'s Going the Last Mile: Accelerating Progress in Food Security and Nutrition event
https://www.ifpri.org/event/going-last-mile-accelerating-progress-food-security-and-nutrition
Concept of collaborative and open innovation approaches for development of ag...WirelessInfo
The document discusses the vision and objectives of the FOODIE4Africa initiative, which aims to use a collaborative living lab approach to connect communities in Africa with researchers and data providers in Europe. The goal is to integrate big and open data for agriculture to develop new applications focused on African realities. Key objectives include forming a FOODIE4Africa living lab based on co-creation, effectively using ICT technologies and open/big data, implementing a requirements-driven toolkit, ensuring utilization of existing data sets, and building a sustainable long-term model for open/big data use in African agriculture, forestry, and rural development.
This document provides guidance on multi-actor projects and thematic networks funded through the EU's Horizon 2020 program. It emphasizes that these projects should have practical applicability by involving stakeholders like farmers and advisors throughout the project. For multi-actor projects, it stresses demonstrating relevance to end-user needs, complementarity with existing research, and sufficient involvement of actors with different types of knowledge. Thematic networks are expected to compile existing scientific and best practice knowledge not widely known or used by practitioners, and produce dissemination materials like practice abstracts accessible to farmers.
This document discusses a participatory landscape labeling approach to support integrated landscape management. The approach is producer-driven and aims to capture value for consumers by highlighting unique landscape attributes and best practices. It involves introducing landscape labeling, conducting market analysis, strengthening farmer networks, establishing quality standards, and developing a marketing strategy. The case study focuses on a landscape labeling project in the Lari region of Kenya that includes workshops on market opportunities and capacity development, on-farm consultations, business plan development, and a mini-grant fund to support the plans.
This document summarizes the key achievements and next steps of the United Nations informal Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector (SPHS). It outlines several tools and resources the SPHS has developed to promote more sustainable procurement practices, including a tool for monitoring compliance with international environmental conventions on chemicals, an environmental questionnaire for suppliers, and an online knowledge hub on best practices. It notes that future work will include implementing these tools across UN agencies and developing additional resources like a social questionnaire and training programs. The overall goal is to leverage the UN's role in procurement to lower the environmental impact and improve human health and well-being.
The document discusses partnering with the private sector to promote sustainable forest management and natural capital. It outlines UNDP's private sector strategy and focuses on the Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM) which uses a value chain approach to support inclusive business models in food value chains. AFIM provides catalytic grants to projects targeting smallholder farmers and aims to benefit over 11,000 people annually. It also discusses mainstreaming sustainability and resilience in food value chains and commodity supply chains through multi-stakeholder platforms and national commodity platforms.
This presentation addresses the financing gap in food systems with a focus on scaling finance for the food system transformation. The presentation was held by Andre de Jager, Managing Director, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, at the Food Systems Finance Advantage event, part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 series at COP24.
The document outlines an ACIAR workshop on sustainable impact through international agricultural research collaboration. The workshop will feature presentations from project leaders on ACIAR projects related to food security, vegetables, and cropping systems. It provides background on ACIAR's vision, mission, research model, projects, partners, and reviews showing economic and adoption impacts in countries like Afghanistan. It discusses ACIAR's focus on research that improves productivity and livelihoods sustainably, and adapting partnerships based on an independent review to engage more with the private sector and NGOs.
The document discusses resource efficient and cleaner production (RECP), which is defined as the continuous application of an integrated, preventive environmental strategy towards processes, products and services to increase efficiency and reduce risks to humans and the environment. RECP aims to identify where companies are losing resources in the form of waste and pollution in order to minimize these losses and improve productivity.
Presentation at our ESPP – IFOAM EU stakeholder meeting Closing nutrient cycles and uptake of recycled fertilisers (12/12/2018)
See all outputs of the stakeholder meeting at our ESPP website: http://www.phosphorusplatform.eu/organic-agriculture
The document discusses partnerships between GIZ and CGIAR for agricultural research and development. It proposes taking the R4D (research for development) continuum seriously by jointly planning activities between research organizations like CGIAR and development organizations like GIZ. It provides examples of past projects on rice in India and fruit trees in Southern Africa. It also shows tables of partnerships between different CGIAR centers and GIZ projects, and a list of current projects between CGIAR and GIZ in various countries that focus on issues like soil protection, livestock, and cocoa intensification. To strengthen partnerships, it recommends co-creating and co-implementing scaling activities, continuing technology assessments, and creating a product and technology database.
Sharing open data and capacity development experiences from RCMRDGODAN Secretariat
Earth observation data plays a critical role in building resilience to climate change as well as reporting on sustainable development goals (SDG’s). There are new opportunities to use open data in earth observation such as Landsat and the Sentinel data. Modern day farming relies on weather information in order to plan ahead of extreme weather conditions such as drought and floods. In addition, there is need to invest in hydromet services to build resilience to climate change and help citizens with accurate weather forecasts.
In this webinar, Dr Kenneth Mubea (the Capacity Development Lead) at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) shares some of the experiences and projects that RCMRD are involved in various open data initiatives in Agriculture. RCMRD’s mission is to promote sustainable development using earth observation and thus SDG’s. RCMRD is an inter-governmental organization established in 1975 (Nairobi, Kenya) and currently has 20 Contracting Member States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Regions.
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 59 on “Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and IPES-FOOD was held on Wednesday 15 January 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing brought various perspectives and experiences on agroecological systems to support agricultural transformation. Experts presented trends and prospects for agroecological approaches and what it implies for the future of the food systems. Successes and innovative models in agroecology in different parts of the world and the lessons learned for upscaling them were also discussed.
Regional initiatives to promote biosciences innovation: The BioInnovate Progr...ILRI
The Bio-Innovate Program is a regional initiative established in 2010 to promote biosciences innovations in Eastern Africa. It focuses on strengthening agriculture, developing innovative waste treatment technologies, and enhancing policy. The program comprises 9 projects across 6 countries involving 57 institutions. It has developed an integrated wastewater treatment system using anaerobic digesters, aerobic digesters, and constructed wetlands to produce biogas and biofertilizers. This system has been piloted successfully at industries in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania. Going forward, the Bio-Innovate Program aims to scale up promising innovations and deepen private sector partnerships.
This document summarizes four presentations from a side event at CFS 43 on adopting new technologies to improve food security and agriculture. The first presentation discussed using spectral methods to rapidly diagnose soil micronutrient deficiencies in Africa. The second presented a pilot project in Somalia that combines basic research capacity building with farmer participation. The third discussed how the Tanzania Horticultural Association encourages farmers in Zanzibar to adopt innovations like drip irrigation, greenhouses, and solar pumps. The final presentation was about the GloCal nutrition project, which uses educational videos and mobile apps to promote maternal and child nutrition in Kenya.
This document summarizes guidelines for applicants to the BioInnovate Africa Programme Phase II grant. There are two categories of grants available: Category 1 for developing and piloting biobased technologies up to $750,000 per project, and Category 2 for biobased technology business incubation up to $250,000 per project. Eligible applicants are scientists, researchers, and innovators from Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Projects must address value addition to agroproduce or agro/biowaste conversion and involve partnerships between researchers and private sector firms. The total funding available is $5 million over 3 years.
This document discusses the Biovision Farmer Communication Program in Africa. It provides context on challenges facing smallholder farmers in Africa related to land degradation, climate change, and population growth. It then discusses the evolution of agricultural extension approaches in Kenya from a top-down model to more participatory approaches. The Biovision Foundation and Biovision Africa Trust are working to bridge research and application of sustainable agricultural practices to improve food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers through farmer communication programs.
Bioresources Innovations Network for Eastern African Development ILRI
The Bio-Innovate Program is a 5-year, $10.7 million program funded by Sida to promote bioscience innovation in eastern Africa. It focuses on improving crop productivity, climate change adaptation, waste management and value addition. Through competitive grants, it supports multi-country, multi-institutional projects in these areas. Its goals are to strengthen bioscience innovation systems in the region to address challenges like food security and environmental sustainability.
This document describes the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA), a newly formed alliance of 9 agricultural research centers. AIRCA's goals are to improve global food security by supporting smallholder agriculture through environmentally sustainable practices. The alliance has over $200 million in combined annual revenue and works across many world regions and ecosystem types. AIRCA members have expertise in agriculture, health, and sustainable landscapes and intend to have impact at the agriculture-environment nexus through integrated, holistic solutions developed at scale.
The document summarizes the Biovision Farmer Communication Program in Africa. The program aims to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods through better access to information on sustainable agriculture innovations. It does this through a network of information channels including a website, magazine, radio show, and call center. The program works with partners to disseminate research-based information to farmers and provide training through learning centers. Its goal is to transition subsistence farmers to more productive and commercial agriculture.
The Development-Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture Initiative (...Francois Stepman
The DeSIRA initiative was launched in 2017. The objective is to contribute to climate-relevant, productive and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems in low and middle-incomes countries
Three outcomes are expected:
• Foster innovation in agriculture through research for Food, Nutrition Security, and Sustainable Agriculture with a climate change perspective
• Strengthen national agricultural research (capacities, governance mechanisms) and innovation systems
• Improve efficiency of research and innovation support services for climate resilient food systems by enhancing evidence for policy design and implementation
The strategic approach for DeSIRA is based on the following key points:
• Connecting both EU & EU Member States development agendas and national priorities regarding agricultural and food systems
• Linking research and innovation to contribute to impacts at scale addressing climate change with clusters of projects funded by UE and Member States
• Strengthening national research capacities both at individual and organizational levels
• Contributing to the continental (Africa) and global governance of research (GFAR, CGIAR, AIRCA)
• Building strong partnerships involving European, International and National research capacities
• Contributing to the assessment and fostering of Agricultural Innovation Systems and national innovation policies with a Capacity to innovate based approach
The document summarizes the "Produce" model of public-private partnerships in Mexico for agricultural innovation. The Produce model includes 32 foundations and a national coordinating body, COFUPRO, that develop technologies to increase competitiveness and sustainability. Key results include a national network for innovation, food chain studies, and strategic alliances. Successful projects increased livestock production through silvopastoral systems and strengthened avocado and cotton production systems through technology transfer. The related INNOVAGRO network promotes innovation and productivity across 16 countries through cooperation.
Learning together about how innovation happens in smallholder farming in AfricaFrancois Stepman
This document summarizes the objectives and findings of the JOLISAA and INSARD projects, which studied innovation processes in smallholder farming in Africa. The projects found that:
1) Smallholders actively innovate on their own to solve problems and improve farming, but this endogenous innovation can be strengthened by combining local and external knowledge.
2) Access to diverse markets and value chains is important for smallholder resilience but also carries risks, so support is needed.
3) Innovation is unpredictable and evolves over long periods, so flexible, open-ended support is needed from researchers.
4) Innovation has social, organizational and technological dimensions that must be addressed together.
It recommends changing how
Time for a step-change: The agricultural innovation and enterprise facility GCARD Conferences
This document discusses the need for increased investment in agricultural research and innovation systems. It makes the following key points:
1. Investment in agricultural R&D can increase productivity, sustainability, food security, ecosystem services, and economic growth. However, current investment levels are inadequate and need to triple.
2. A collective, coordinated approach is needed that strengthens national agricultural innovation systems, breaks down silos, attracts long-term sustainable investment, and ensures opportunities for women and youth.
3. An integrated agricultural innovation and enterprise facility is proposed to increase investments, catalyze collective actions to address national needs, and build capacity to transform research into development impact at scale.
The document discusses the Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) and its third Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD3).
GFAR aims to make agricultural research and innovation systems more effective, responsive and equitable to achieve sustainable development. It does this through multi-stakeholder collective actions at national, regional and international levels.
GCARD1 and 2 involved a global dialogue on reforming broken agricultural research systems and allowing stakeholder voices to shape strategies. GCARD3 focused on ensuring no one is left behind through national dialogues, regional events, and a global event to address practical challenges through new ideas and connections.
GFAR enables partnerships and collective actions on key issues like institutional transformation
Agricultural Innovation Systems: The Strengthening of DiversityLINKInnovationStudies
The theme for this presentation is the existence of and the increasing need for a diverse and expanding repertoire of ways of organising innovation in order to cope with the complex and fast-changing agricultural scenario. Accordingly, the challenge is not just to recognise this, but also how to enable the creation of this innovation diversity and how to reposition agricultural research within this rapidly changing landscape.
Policy innovations and opportunities for Africa’s BioeconomyAKADEMIYA2063
This document summarizes a presentation on policy innovations and opportunities for Africa's bioeconomy. It defines bioeconomy as the production and use of biomass through innovation and processing biomaterials. It outlines continental and regional frameworks supporting bioeconomy development in Africa. Opportunities created include sustainable production, climate resilience, new value chains, and jobs. Key enabling factors are governance, research and innovation, infrastructure, and finance. The document examines experiences in Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, and Uganda and recommends identifying priority sectors, strengthening R&D and markets, regulating sustainability, and providing advisory boards to guide bioeconomy development.
The document describes ICRISAT's holistic approach to agricultural research and development. It focuses on sustainable intensification through diversifying farms, introducing new crop varieties and technologies, and facilitating market access. The approach is participatory, builds capacity, integrates communications, and monitors impacts. It aims to empower women and integrate nutrition.
Advances of the AU-EU FNSSA Partnership towards Food Systems TransformationFrancois Stepman
23-25 January 2024. Joint SCAR workshop: “Research needs and priorities for the transformation to Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) at European and global level”
https://paepard.blogspot.com/2024/01/research-needs-and-priorities-for.html
Functional bioscience innovation systems as the pathway to a sustainable bio-...SIANI
Presented as part of the "Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge Based Bio-economy" seminar on how agricultural innovation and in particular biosciences in areas such as breeding, agro-processing and value addition can contribute to economic growth and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Key questions of the seminar:
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Bio-resources Innovations Network for Eastern African Development: Bio-Innovate Program progress and achievements
1. Bio-resources Innovations Network for Eastern
African Development
Bio-Innovate Program progress and achievements
Allan Liavoga
Regional Experts Workshop on Development, Regulation and Use of
Bio-pesticides in East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 22–23 May 2014
3. Africa’s Paradox!
Africa is the richest continent in bio-resources BUT per capita
income is the lowest!
Africa has the largest arable land BUT has the lowest productivity of
all the regions!
• Import food $20 bn annually
Africa is majorly Primary economy BUT no economy has developed
purely on Primary production!
Africa is aiming to industrialize BUT how to deal with
environmental degradation ?
Substantial research investment BUT not translating to impactful
technological solutions!
4. What Needs to Happen
Harness and integrate bio-resources into
socio-economic development
Adopt modern bioscience innovations as a
tool for development
Partner with private sector to deliver
innovations to the market place
Establish enabling policy environment for
innovation
Establish enabling policy environment for
innovation
5. What Needs to Happen
üHarness and integrate bio-resources
into socio-economic development
üAdopt modern bioscience innovations
as a tool for development
üPartner with private sector to deliver
innovations to the market place
üEstablish enabling policy environment
for innovation
üEstablish enabling policy environment
for innovation
6. Bio-Innovate Program
• Established to support biosciences research
and product oriented innovation activities
in the eastern Africa, 2010 – 2014
•
• Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
and Uganda
•
• Currently funding 9 innovation and policy
consortia projects
• Program is supported by the Swedish
International Development Cooperation
Agency
• Complimentary funds from private sector
7. Purpose of Program
The program is asking the question how to move
bioscience innovations into the marketplace for
sustainable utilization and integration of the region’s
bio-resources for economic growth and sustainable
development?
8. Program Guiding Principles
• Science – Generate new
knowledge
• Innovation – Emphasis on
product development &
pathway to commercialization
•
•
• Regional Impact – sustainable
and scalable social and
economic benefits
ResearchResearch
InnovationInnovation
ScalableScalable
9. Effective Partnerships to link Research to Innovations to End
Users
•
• Innovation systems
approach
•
• Effective
partnerships
innovators and
delivery agents
• Translating
innovations into
forms easily
adopted by end
users
•
• Favorable policy
environment for
innovation
12. Project3.Bean
technologies
Project3.Bean
technologies
Project 2. Cassava, Potato and
Sweet Potato
Project 2. Cassava, Potato and
Sweet Potato
Project 1. Sorghum and
Millet
Project 1. Sorghum and
Millet
Project 4. Bio-energy and
mushroom production
from agro-industrial
wastes
Project 4. Bio-energy and
mushroom production
from agro-industrial
wastes
Project 5. Waste treatment and
production of biogas and bio-
fertilizers
Project 5. Waste treatment and
production of biogas and bio-
fertilizers
Project 6. Sorghum and
Millet value addition
Project 6. Sorghum and
Millet value addition
Project 7. Bio-enhanced seedsProject 7. Bio-enhanced seeds
Project 8. Industrial enzymes
application
Project 8. Industrial enzymes
application
Project 9. Bio-sciences
innovation policy
Project 9. Bio-sciences
innovation policy
1. Crop Productivity and
Resilience to Climate
Change
2. Agro-industrial Waste
Treatment and Value Addition
3. Incubation and Promotion
of Targeted value chains
4. Bio-resources
Innovation Policy and
Sustainability Analysis
Thematic Focus
13. Bio-Innovate Phase II (2015 – 2019)
Strengthen link along innovation chain
Stage-wise funding of bio-innovations
Academ
i
aPrivateSector
Up-scaling
Commercialization
Out-scaling
Innovation
Pilot testingResearch
Proof of
Concept
Several factors of course contribute to this but underling all this is STI
How do we bridge the gap between research and end users needs
Have to continue conducting cutting edge research to generate knew knowledge that provide solutions to our problems
Clear shift from research oriented to innovation oriented activities – carefully think about the uptake of these technologies and therefore the PS becomes critical in this process
Deliberate effort to identify scalable ideas at the regional level
Innovation systems approach where Research is not the central actor but a part of the whole system