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Dynamics of biosciences regulation and opportunities for biosciences innovation in Africa: Exploring regulatory policy brokering
Kingiri, Ann; Hall, Andy - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
regulatory policy processes towards putting biosciences research into use. It identifies a practical function-based typology that … describes four categories of policy brokers who perform different tasks, with the potential to impact biosciences regulatory … policy brokerage to enhance the translation of biosciences research into use for the benefit of the poor. Using regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148900
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Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of innovation
Hall, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper is a synthesis of research undertaken as part of the Research Into Use programme (RIU) to explore the question of how agricultural research can be used more effectively to improve agricultural production and farmers' livelihoods in developing countries. Many of the challenges the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856438
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Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya
Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees; … - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond knowledge brokering has resulted in a changing landscape of the intermediary domain in an increasingly market-driven agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148899
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Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya
Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond knowledge brokering has resulted in a changing landscape of the intermediary domain in an increasingly market-driven agricultural sector in developing countries. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712243
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The Poverty of Nations - The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa
Morton, James - 2021
Why, after 30 years of aid, were so many African countries no better off in the 1980s than they had been at independence? Why, indeed, were so many of them slipping back and earlier economic achievements being undermined?Concentrating on Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245275
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Impacts of Agricultural Mechanization : Evidence From Four African Countries
Daum, Thomas; Adegbola, Ygué P.; Kamau, Geoffrey; … - 2021
Agricultural mechanization is on the rise in Africa. A widespread replacement of manual labor will change the face of …, Kenya, Nigeria and Mali. In 130 gendered focus group discussions, 1,330 respondents from 87 villages shared positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242755
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were precisely because lessons from previous research on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323002
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper reflects on the experience of the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in Asia. It reconfirms much of what has been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were precisely because lessons from previous research on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856317
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Tradeoffs and complementarities in the adoption of improved seeds, fertilizer, and natural resource management technologies in Kenya
Wainaina, Priscilla; Songporne Tongruksawattana; Qaim, Matin - 2014
farmers in Africa. While some consider natural resource management (NRM) technologies as most appropriate, others propagate … technologies in the same context are not easily possible. We use representative data from maize-producing households in Kenya and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440838
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Strategic Decision-Making: Adoption of Agricultural Technologies and Risk in a Peasant Economy
Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619927