Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project

Ncube, X and Pittock, J and Bjornlund, H and Rooyen, A V (2024) Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project. International Journal of Water Resources Development. pp. 1-23. ISSN 0790-0627

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Abstract

A major challenge in agricultural research for development is understanding how agricultural innovation platforms (AIPs) scale innovations to maximize environmental and socioeconomic benefits. Multilevel perspective and anchoring frameworks were used to assess the effectiveness of AIPs in anchoring innovations to go to scale under the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project. Resultant scaling approaches, and whether and how scaling impacts were sustained are assessed at the sociotechnical regime. AIP collective capabilities ensured anchoring strategies and scaling approaches utilized by AIPs led to the embedding of innovations within the agricultural sociotechnical system. This resulted in changes in policy, behaviour and practices.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : East & Southern Africa
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Agricultural innovation platforms, development, irrigated agriculture, scaling, sustainability
Subjects:	Others > Sustainable Agriculture Others > Irrigation Others > Southern Africa
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2024 04:50
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2024 04:50
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12783
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07900...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Acknowledgement:	The authors acknowledge Thabani Dube (Zimbabwe), Luifred Kissoly (Tanzania) and Miguel Tafula (Mozambique) for their thoughtful and timely insights into specific country scaling efforts. We also acknowledge Michael Wellington for producing the map of irrigation schemes for this paper.
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