UNU-MERIT: research - project details

Innovation capacity for New Agriculture: A case study of response capacities to cope with evolving markets, norms and standards in the livestock sector in Kenya and Ethiopia
theme	Theme 3: Knowledge and industrial dynamics
time frame	2004-2006
researcher(s)	Andy Hall Ekin Keskin
description	This study, conducted in collaboration with FAO and ILRI, is exploring aspects of innovation capacity through a study of the livestock export sector in East Africa. Growing domestic and international demand for livestock products offers potentially important ways of reducing poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, these markets are characterised by changing and strong patterns of competition, and constantly changing trade norms and standards – sanitary and phyto-sanitary and animal welfare standards and certification. The study explores how response capacity to cope with these changes could be strengthened in ways that both enable producers to innovate and at the same time safe guards the livelihoods of poor people linked with the sector.
deliverables	Conceptual Tools: Ekin Keskin 2005 New agriculture, opportunities for economic growth and poverty reduction. Draft report Ekin Keskin 2005 The challenge of innovating in response to changing environments. Draft report Ekin Keskin 2005 Innovation response capacity: towards a conceptual framework. Draft report