Agricultural Systems Special Issue Launch: Enabling Inclusive Innovation in Agriculture and Food Systems
Date - December 4, 2024
Location: Nairobi, Kenya and online
Time: 13:00 - 15:00 EAT
Since 2021, ISDC has focused on inclusive innovation and what that means to CGIAR. The work started with a brief that led to a literature review, which inspired a Science Forum series on inclusive innovation and a special issue in Agricultural Systems. The 2024 Science Forum will take place as a hybrid side event for CGIAR’s Scaling Week in Nairobi the first week of December and will serve as a launch event for this special issue with four corresponding and/or lead authors presenting research related to CGIAR.
Special Issue Abstract
With increasing awareness of the complexity and context-specificity of agriculture and food (agrifood) systems, there are widespread calls for more inclusive approaches to research and innovation. Greater capacity for inclusivity presents an important opportunity to increase the relevance, legitimacy, and effectiveness of research and development institutions. This will require a shift in paradigm and resource allocation. To enrich the evidence base for inclusive practices in agrifood systems innovation, key arenas include improved characterization of local contexts and trade-offs; broader, multilevel engagement; bundled technologies; inclusive value chain entrepreneurship; functional capacity development; empowerment of farming communities and marginalized groups; novel modes of knowledge exchange and emergent collaboration; and system-level sustainability transitions.
This special issue in Agricultural Systems (impact factor 6.6) explores institutional culture, regulatory, and governance dimensions of inclusive innovation in public and private agrifood research organizations.
Agenda
ISDC Opening Remarks
Holger Meinke, Special Issue Guest Editor & ISDC Chair (remotely)
Watch video here.
Opportunities and Challenges with Inclusivity
Amy R. Beaudreault, Special Issue Managing Guest Editor & ISDC Secretariat Lead
Read the editorial here.
Watch video here.
Advancing Inclusive and Effective Agri-Food Systems Research for Development: A Short Communication
Nompumelelo Obokoh, ISDC Vice Chair & CEO, South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP), South Africa
Read the full paper here.
Watch video here.
Innovation Portfolio Management for Responsible Food Systems Transformation in the Public Sector: Lessons, Results and Recommendations from CGIAR
Marc Schut, Senior Innovation Portfolio Management Advisor, CGIAR & Senior Scientist at Wageningen University
Read the full paper here.
Watch video here.
Linguistic Diversity, Climate Shock, and Farmers-Herder Conflicts: Implications for Inclusive Innovations for Agro-Pastoralism Systems
Chun Song, Spatial Econometrician, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Read the full paper here.
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Equity Principles: Utilizing Social Theory for More Effective Social Transformation in Agriculture Research for Development
Erin McGuire, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture, a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Feed the Future initiative program based at the University of California, Davis
Read the full paper here.
Watch video here.
Panel Discussion with Presenters
Moderated by Md. Mofakkarul Islam, Special Issue Guest Editor & Associate Professor of Food Security, Environment and Development, University of Greenwich
Panelists:
- Patrick Caron, Vice Chair of the CGIAR Integrated Partnership Board
- Nompumelelo Obokoh, ISDC Vice Chair & CEO, South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP), South Africa
- Marc Schut, Senior Innovation Portfolio Management Advisor, CGIAR & Senior Scientist at Wageningen University
- Chun Song, Spatial Econometrician, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
- Erin McGuire, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture, a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Feed the Future initiative program based at the University of California, Davis
Watch video here.
Closing Remarks
Amy R. Beaudreault, Special Issue Managing Guest Editor & ISDC Secretariat Lead
Additional Resources
2023 Science Forum
Innovation for Impact: Growing Gender Equality, Youth, and Social Inclusion
2022 Science Forum
Building Inclusive Innovation in International Development
Side Event: QoR4D to Strengthen Institutional Innovation
