adopt new agricultural technology and improved practices, and keep farm and household assets. It is equally important to …

little is known about how these opportunities can be effectively leveraged to promote pro-poor processes of rural innovation … smallholders' innovation processes. Case studies of smallholder innovation networks in 10 communities suggest that public sector … that create more space for market and civil society actors to participate in smallholder innovation networks." from Author …

, organizations, institutions, or policies. Innovation means putting ideas, knowledge, and technology to work in a manner that brings … policies and other institutions. Formal and informal knowledge and innovation must therefore be linked to accelerate … pursuit of innovation. For innovation to occur, knowledge must be created, accumulated, shared, and used. Innovations …

and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary … output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the … appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these …