Innovation Platforms (IPs) are seen as a promising vehicle to foster a paradigm shift in
agricultural research for development (AR4D). By facilitating interaction, negotiation and …

Technology transfer (TT), or transfer of technology (TOT), is an integral part of the extension
process involving the transfer and spread of technical innovation and know-how to the …

This article takes an innovation intermediary perspective to examine farmer cooperative's
(FC) roles in facilitating agricultural innovation and its positioning in the agricultural …

Innovation platforms are fast becoming part of the mantra of agricultural research for
development projects and programmes. Their basic tenet is that stakeholders depend on …

Including smallholding farmers in high value markets has emerged as a pro-poor
development strategy. Through a case study of a project that intended to incorporate native …

The field of extension is quite dynamic and new configurations and alternative extension
systems and approaches have been emerging. This chapter explores the recent …

Highlights•Innovative initiatives emerge everywhere, even under adverse
circumstances.•The Spiral of Innovations, when used in a non-linear fashion, facilitates the …

The turn of agrarian sciences and agricultural extension from reductionist and transfer of
technology, respectively, towards systemic approaches has transformed agricultural/rural …

In the past, studies on inclusive development involve mainly the perspective of equitable
distribution of economic and societal outputs. This study, however, takes a different …

The purpose of this piece of work is to investigate, through a literature review, the role of
intermediaries in agricultural and rural development. In the first place, a general view of the …