How to Strengthen Innovation Support Services in Agriculture with Regard to Multi-Stakeholder Approaches

Faure, Guy; Knierim, Andrea; Koutsouris, Alex; Ndah, Hycenth Tim; Audouin, Sarah; Zarokosta, Eleni; Wielinga, Eelke; Triomphe, Bernard; Mathé, Syndhia; Temple, Ludovic; Heanue, Kevin

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“…The content of the national extension policy (NEP) is well articulated and aims at transforming agricultural extension in Nigeria, but a pertinent question to ask is: how workable and operative are the nationally oriented policies at the state level? The setbacks and limitations of top-down national planning in agriculture have become progressively clearer, and it has been more extensively acknowledged that, if the policies are to succeed, stakeholders at many levels (such as the public sector, private sector, civil society, researchers, youth and women representatives, and other developmental stakeholders) must play a more determining role in their design and implementation mechanisms (Brancalion et al 2016;Hermans et al 2017;Sartas et al 2018;Bisseleua et al 2018;Faure et al 2019).…”

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National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria

Ogunniyi¹,

Babu²,

Balana³

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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a CGIAR Research Center established in 1975, provides evidence-based policy solutions to sustainably end hunger and malnutrition and reduce poverty. The Institute conducts research, communicates results, optimizes partnerships, and builds capacity to ensure sustainable food production, promote healthy food systems, improve markets and trade, transform agriculture, build resilience, and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is considered in all of the Institute's work. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world, including development implementers, public institutions, the private sector, and farmers' organizations, to ensure that local, national, regional, and global food policies are based on evidence.

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National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria

Ogunniyi¹,

Babu²,

Balana³

et al. 2020

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“…Classical Schumpeter's theory [11] attaches to innovations a decisive importance in regional economic development. Strategies of advisory services were suggested e.g., by Abbasi et al [12], Oliveira et al [13], Toepfer et al [14], Faure et al [15] or Franzel et al [16]. Toma et al [17] highlight that the access to innovation is an important factor of agricultural development besides of pure economic factors.…”

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New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several methods were used to compile the national inventory, in particular the questionnaire survey method. The Czech part of the research was based on 30 questionnaires conducted among both farmers and agricultural organizations engaged in demonstration activities. The questions were focused on a specialization in agriculture, type of the management, connections with networks and their size, types of demonstration activities according to the types of farms and non-productive activities. The most common topics and purposes for demonstration in the Czech Republic are recorded for the category arable land with combined crops. Highly linked to sustainability are activities such as conservation agriculture on arable land with combined crops, root crops and fodders mainly due to a reduction of soil erosion within crop production and animal health management and welfare for dairy within livestock production. The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a subsidy program to help farmers in the form of illustrative practical demonstrations of comprehensive sustainable farming practices. The main added values for the end-users, if the generated knowledge is implemented, are to strengthen the knowledge transfer system in agriculture, focusing on practical demonstrations and presentation of sustainable farming systems and soil protection in practice. However, the demonstration activities support mostly technological development and some individual ecological measures whereas the sustainability of agriculture as the complex process unifying the crop and animal production is not in the foreground.

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“…This result is consistent with Toillier et al [6] who show that a variety of mechanisms are requested to create enabling conditions for innovation and to provide a step-by-step support to innovation. Therefore, as confirmed by Faure et al [17], networking, facilitation and brokerage functions are crucial across all the phases of the innovation process.…”

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“…For effective co-innovation there is a need for network-level capability and legitimacy, an understanding of priorities between actors, and adequate resources [16]. The coordination is a key issue because of the diversity of actors and their interactions and because of the progressive co-construction of the service demand and supply [17]. Innovation systems are more likely to build, sustain or enhance food security in situations of change when they are flexible [18,19] enough to address needs of diverse target groups.…”

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Coherence, Specification and Effectiveness of Agricultural Innovation Systems in Benin

Moumouni-Moussa

2019

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Aims: This paper explores possible approaches of assessing the effectiveness of AIS with the main hypothesis that ex ante analysis of advisory service systems integrating local perspectives can help for early evaluation of their chance of success. Study Design: The AIS developed by the Cotton Boosting Project and the District Center for Agricultural Promotion were selected as case studies in Bembereke District in Northern Benin. We focused on advisory services provided by these institutions to farmers to better cope with soil fertility decline and the mortality of small ruminants. Methodology: We constructed an analytical framework based on organizational theories of agricultural services, structured around the concepts of level of (i) intern and extern coherence, (ii) specification and (iii) effectiveness of AIS. We conducted systematic field observations and semi-structured interviews with farmers and agricultural projects leaders to collect qualitative data on the components of AIS, their level of accuracy, the relations between these components, their appropriateness with the intervention contexts, farmers’ perceptions and satisfactions. Results: The AIS we investigated displayed lack of coherence between objectives, services provided, human and material resources deployed and assets of targeted groups. Specific characteristics of the intervention environment such as rick factor were not often sufficiently considered by project leaders. Objectives and target groups were the less specified components. The low levels of harmony and accuracy between/of the components of the AIS were proportional to their unsatisfactory level of achieved performance, displayed by the persistence of soil degradation and the mortality of small ruminants. Conclusion: The levels of coherence and specification between/of the components of AIS can tell a lot about its probable level of effectiveness. Such an ex ante analysis may complement usual approaches used to assess the effectiveness of AIS.

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How to Strengthen Innovation Support Services in Agriculture with Regard to Multi-Stakeholder Approaches

Abstract: Les nouveaux modes d'organisation des processus d'innovation

Cited by 39 publications

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National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria

National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

Coherence, Specification and Effectiveness of Agricultural Innovation Systems in Benin

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