Waters-Bayer, Ann and Bayer, Wolfgang | 2005
- Author(s): Waters-Bayer, Ann and Bayer, Wolfgang
- Publisher: ETC ecoculture [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural innovations, research and development, co-operation between organizations, civil society, community participation, social development
Using the example of PROLINNOVA's Global Partnership Programme, it is shown how the R&D capacities of resource-poor farmers can be strengthened and how agricultural services can support them.
Waters-Bayer, Ann and Veldhuizen, Laurens van | 2005
- Author(s): Waters-Bayer, Ann and Veldhuizen, Laurens van
- Publisher:
- Pages: 1--4
- Keywords: innovations, agricultural innovations, natural resources, environmental management, popular participation, nongovernmental organizations
Community-led Participatory Innovation Development (PID) is contrasted with Participatory Technology Development (PTD) and the role of NGOs in promoting PID is discussed. Also, the PROLINNOVA initiative is outlined.
Waters-Bayer, Ann and Wettasinha, Chesha and Veldhuizen, Laurens van | 2007
- Author(s): Waters-Bayer, Ann and Wettasinha, Chesha and Veldhuizen, Laurens van
- Publisher: PROLINNOVA
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural innovations, institution building, popular participation, nongovernmental organizations, public sector, private sector, farmers associations
The origins of the PROLINNOVA initiative and the concepts behind it are described and the structure of partnerships to promote local innovation, and the experiences gained in establishing them, are outlined.
Watts, Jamie | 2008
- Author(s): Watts, Jamie
- Publisher: Institutional learning & change (ILAC) initiative
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural research, research centres, capacity building, agricultural innovations, small farms, technology transfer, poverty alleviation
The project co-ordinator of the Institutional Learning And Change (ILAC) of CGIAR outlines how ILAC envisions its role in promoting collaborative pro-poor agricultural development among international agricultural research institutions.
Watts, Jamie | 2008
- Author(s): Watts, Jamie
- Publisher: Cambridge university press
- Pages: 21--35
- Keywords: agricultural research, innovations, poverty alleviation, institution building, research centres, evaluation, capacity building
CGIAR's ILAC initiative is testing approaches for expanding the contributions of impact assessment and evaluation to learning, decision making and improvement with a view to pro-poor innovation in research programmes.