COVID-19 has been a tragedy for California. More than 4 million Californians have contracted the disease, and over 64,000 have died from it. And beyond the cost of illness and death, the pandemic and the state’s actions to contain it have devastated California’s economy. Low-income and...

In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...

Foreword / Franck Rijsberman, Kwesi Atta-Krah -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- The state of innovation platforms in agricultural research for development / Marc Schut, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Michael Misiko, Iddo Dror -- With trust and a little help from our friends : how the...