Horticulture innovation platform
The Horticulture Innovation Platform has focused on the challenge of organizing farmers and strengthening existing farmer organizations for coordinated production of seedlings of the recommended improved varieties of horticultural crops.
RNRRS outputs being reviewed
The Horticulture Innovation Platform has focused on the challenge of organizing farmers and strengthening existing farmer organizations for coordinated production of seedlings of the recommended improved varieties of horticultural crops.
RNRRS outputs being reviewed
- Strengthening local organisation gives farmers more say in local policy
Rural livelihoods are improving thanks to stronger social capital and the creation of conditions in which local people can help to start and effect policy change. Despite recent decentralisation, local communities in the highlands of Uganda were still not able to influence policy and the take-up of new natural resources management solutions. To be effective, decentralisation must be supported by strong local institutions or mature social capital. This methodology is used by professionals working with rural communities to improve their livelihoods using participatory approaches. It is currently used by CIAT's Enabling Rural Innovation project in Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, D R Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. (NRSP17)
| RIU Malawi innovation platform aims to increase availability of quality fingerlings. March 2010 (5:54) |  |
Related information
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Africa matters: some policy relevant lessons emerging from the RIU country programmes Author: Jeroen Dijkman June 2010 (PDF 80KB) |
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Brokering networks for innovation: who and how? Author: Andy Hall April 2010 (PDF 70KB) |
