Symposium on agricultural innovation systems in Africa - Kampala, Uganda (20-23 November 2006)
Experiences - methods and knowledge-sharing between african researchers and practitioners
The Innovation Africa Symposium brought together about 140 researchers and practitioners mostly from Africa, (and some from Asia and South America) involved in innovation systems to share current thinking, experiences, advances, and lessons.
This event was jointly organised by CIAT (International Centre for Tropical Agriculture), IFPRI-ISNAR (International Service for National Agricultural Research programme of the International Food Policy Research Institute), ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), IIRR-Africa (International Institute for Rural Reconstruction), and PROLINNOVA (Promoting Local Innovation). Funding was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation with additional financial assistance from the World Bank and the Ford Foundation.
The papers, posters and discussions focused around these themes:
Conceptual and methods in agricultural innovation systems (AIS);
Partnerships and other forms of social capital in AIS;
Institutional, policy and knowledge-sharing mechanisms to support AIS;
Enhancing local innovation processes;
Market-led innovation in agriculture;
Building innovation capacity.
Outputs:
A book of abstracts presents a detail agenda and all the 48 paper abstracts sorted by theme
www.innovationafrica.net/pdf/bkofabstracts.pdf (78 p. PDF File 380 Ko)
More information:
The CIAT web pages dedicated to this event www.innovationafrica.net
Partners web sites: IFPRI www.ifpri.org, ILRI www.ilri.cgiar.org, IIRR www.iirr.org, PROLLINOVA www.prolinnova.net