Rural Innovation Systems

Business development services, training : intervention fields

| 2011-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: GRET
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: enterprise development, informal sector, agricultural product marketing, small enterprises, small farms, development policy, france
GRET provides strategic business support (management, support-advice, information, vocational training), chain organization support, and assistance for professional organizations, and by contributing to the definition of sectoral public policies in both developed and developing countries.

AFAAS : African forum for agricultural advisory

| 2011-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: African forum for agricultural advisory (AFAAS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, advisory services, africa
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) has the mandate to implement the Agricultural Advisory Services aspects of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme. AFAAS operates under the umbrella of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).

Agricultural innovation (AI) coaching : [dossier]

| 2010-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Royal tropical institute (KIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, agricultural extension, vocational training, institution building, rural development
Agricultural innovation coaching is about facilitating innovation in agriculture and rural development. This dossier provides insight into the concepts of innovation coaching and brokering, and how the coaching concept can be put into practice by intermediaries to support innovation processes.

ASTI : Agricultural science & technology indicators

| 2010-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Food and agriculture organization (FAO)]. IFPRI
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: science and technology policy, evaluation, standardization, agricultural research
This is the blog of the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative. ASTI compiles, analyzes, and publicizes data on institutional developments, investments, and capacity trends in agricultural research and development in developing countries.

Pastoralism

| 2010-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies (IDS). Future agricultures consortium (FAC)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: innovations, development strategies, livestock, africa
The Future Agricultures Consortium has built partnerships between African and UK institutions and developed an evidence base for policy influencing around a set of themes. The focus of the Pastoralism Theme is to research pastoralist innovation systems in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.
 

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