Oil palm is an important industrial, livelihood and food crop in Ghana. Smallholders produce the bulk of the palm fruits and small-scale processors, mainly women, produce most of the crude palm oil. Poor practices lead to a high proportion of free fatty acids in the crude palm oil and the process...
Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel
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Klerkx, Laurens
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[Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana]
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Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana
Cadilhon, Joseph J.
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Schut, Marc
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[Innovation platforms to shape national policy]
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Innovation platforms to shape national policy
Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
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Adekunle, A.A.
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Lundy, Mark
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Tucker, Josephine
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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Schut, Marc
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Ballantyne, Peter G.
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Duncan, Alan J.
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Cadilhon, Joseph J.
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Mundy, Paul
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[What are innovation platforms?]
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What are innovation platforms?
Latin America has historically been a vanguard of agroecology. In Nicaragua, an agroecological transition is occurring, with three decades of building a groundswell based on the farmer-to-farmer movement and the recent institutionalization of agroecology in national law. Yet, problems remain with...
Schiller, Katharina J.F.
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Poortvliet, P. Marijn
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Godek, Wendy
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[Exploring barriers to the agroecological transition in Nicaragua: A Technological Innovation Systems Approach]
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Exploring barriers to the agroecological transition in Nicaragua: A Technological Innovation Systems Approach
Agroecology started to amplify agroecology in Nicaragua in the 1980s and was translated into national policy in 2011. Using the Multi-Level Perspective on sustainability transitions (MLP), this paper explores whether the rise of agroecology has fundamentally transformed Nicaragua’s agri-food syst...
Schiller, Katharina J.F.
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Godek, Wendy
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Poortvliet, P. Marijn
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[Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?]
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Nicaragua’s agroecological transition: Transformation or reconfiguration of the agri-food regime?
This paper argues that the CGIAR -through its CGIAR Research Programmes-is struggling to fulfil its international mandate of conducting strategic research that contributes to agricultural development and global food security. Ongoing reforms have resulted in a situation where the CGIAR is assesse...
Leeuwis, C.
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Schut, Marc
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[Reforming the research policy and impact culture in the CGIAR: Integrating science and systemic capacity development]
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Reforming the research policy and impact culture in the CGIAR: Integrating science and systemic capacity development
This study investigates how the Ethiopian dairy innovation system has functioned to support the development of the Ethiopian dairy sector and what have been the major technical, economic, and institutional constraints in the process. We used a coupled functional–structural analysis of innovation ...
Ergano, Kebebe
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Duncan, Alan J.
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Boer, Imke J.M. de
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Oosting, Simon J.
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[Understanding socio-economic and policy constraints to dairy development in Ethiopia: A coupled functional-structural innovation systems analysis]
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Understanding socio-economic and policy constraints to dairy development in Ethiopia: A coupled functional-structural innovation systems analysis
Parasitic weeds such as Striga spp and Rhamphicarpa fistulosa in smallholder rice production systems form
an increasing problem for food and income security in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper we implement
the Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (RAAIS) as a diagnostic tool to ide...
Schut, Marc
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Rodenburg, J.
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Kayeke, J.
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Ast, A. van
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Bastiaans, L.
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[RAAIS: Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (Part II); integrated analysis of parasitic weed problems in rice in Tanzania]
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RAAIS: Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (Part II); integrated analysis of parasitic weed problems in rice in Tanzania
Invasive species such as Ambrosia (an annual weed) pose a biosecurity risk whose management depends on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of many stakeholders. It can therefore be considered a complex policy and risk governance problem. Complex policy problems are characterised by high uncert...
Oude Lansink, Alfons G.
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Schut, Marc
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Kamanda, J.
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Klerkx, Laurens
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[A multi-level and multi-actor approach to risk governance: a conceptual framework to support policy development for Ambrosia weed control]
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A multi-level and multi-actor approach to risk governance: a conceptual framework to support policy development for Ambrosia weed control
Kilelu, C.
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Klerkx, Laurens
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Omore, Amos O.
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Baltenweck, Isabelle
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Leeuwis, C.
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Githinji, J.W.K.
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[Well-facilitated and inclusive multi-stakeholder processes contribute to more effective dairy value chain development in Tanzania]
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Well-facilitated and inclusive multi-stakeholder processes contribute to more effective dairy value chain development in Tanzania