This document summarizes discussions from a breakout session on understanding the links between agricultural innovation processes and delivering development impacts at scale. It outlines two case studies of interventions that successfully scaled - poultry vaccines for Newcastle disease in Africa and programs in Northeast Brazil to address extreme rural poverty. Key elements for innovation success identified include evidence of technology effectiveness, identifying applicable business models, supportive government policies, gender inclusion, capacity building, and flexibility. The document proposes elements for an analytical framework to guide research on relationships, institutions, and policies that enable innovation and poverty impact, including impact and innovation typologies as well as decision domains.

1. Understanding impact delivery from
agricultural research: Report from break-
out session

2. What is this section about?
• CGIAR is tasked with generating development impacts at scale
• We need to better understand what the links between
innovation processes and delivering development impacts at
scale
• We need a framework for assessing case studies of innovation
processes and their link to impact
• This can be taken forward to build an analytical framework
and ToC on delivering development impacts.

3. Session I: Case Studies and Identifying key
elements
A. Poultry vaccines for Newcastle disease
• ACR funded intervention
• Initial rejection/disbelief at Govt level – eventually lead to major and
successful upscaling
• Evidence base of vaccination effectiveness produced in 90’s
B. Embrapa intervention in NE Brasil
• Extreme poverty mostly rural phenomena – mostly in NE Brasil
• In context of Zero hunger program which linked social protection, income
generation, capacity bldgn.
• Methodological innovation was going to communities of extreme poor to
define constraints/solutions – horizontal rather than vertical

4. Key elements of innovation success?
•Evidence of technology effectiveness (output of
research)
•Extensive time/effort to identify business case
applicable at local level
•Supportive government policy (but not at
beginning)
•Gender positive impacts/involvement
•Capacity Building
•Flexibility
•Time…

5. Agricultural research for rural prosperity:
Rethinking the pathways
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• What should be the elements of an analytical
framework to guide scientific enquiry on
relationships, institutions and policies that enable
innovation and poverty impact in dynamic
contexts?

6. Agricultural research for rural prosperity:
Rethinking the pathways
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- Impact setting typologies
o Farm; Local; National; Global
- Innovation environment typologies
o Orchestrated; Responsive / gradual; Disruptive / revolutionary
- Innovation decision domains
o Partnership; Actor roles and modalities; Institutional arrangements; Support
services; M&E: Metrics, processes, and indicators; Benchmarking; Systemic
change / Scaling; Financing / Investment
- Development impact typologies
o Enduring / systemic change; SDG contribution (quantitative-qualitative);
Scale