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Enhancing Agricultural Innovation: Tools and Options for Strengthening Agricultural Innovation System Capacity
theme	Theme 3: Knowledge and industrial dynamics
client	World Bank and DFID (UK)
time frame	2004-2005
researcher(s)	Andy Hall
description	The project explores the types of interventions that will strengthen the capacity of agricultural innovation systems that international financial organizations and national governments can invest in. The case studies will also contribute empirical material to UNU-INTECH’s on-going comparative analysis of country experiences in building agricultural innovation capacity to compete in domestic and international markets and to cope with world trade rules and quality standards such as sanitary and phytosanaitary conditions. Case studies were undertaken in Colombia, Ghana, India and Bangladesh relating to two themes – (i) export horticulture and (ii) industrialization of the food chain.
deliverables	Project Reports World Bank. 2006. Enhancing agricultural innovation: How to go beyond strengthening agricultural research systems. Economic sector Work Report, The World Bank, Washington DC. Hall, A. J., Mytelka, L and Oyeyinka, B. 2004. Agricultural Innovation systems: concepts and a methodology for diagnostic assessments. Articles Hall, Andy. 2005. Innovating to prosper: Turning the ‘new agriculture’ into a sustainable growth industry .UPDATE.UNU.EDU issue 37 May – June 2005 http://update.unu.edu/ Hall, Andy. 2005. The New Agriculture part II. Boom and bust, shocks and setbacks. UPDATE.UNU.EDU issue 38 July – August 2005 http://update.unu.edu/ Working Papers Hall, A. J., Mytelka, L and Oyeyinka, B. 2006. Concepts and guidelines for diagnostic assessment of agricultural innovation capacity. UNU-MERIT working paper series 2006-017. Case studies: Ahmed, Zahir. 2005. A diagnostic innovation system study of the shrimp sector in Bangladesh. Essegbey, George. 2005. The innovation of the Cassava sector: the Ghanaian experience. Essegbey, George. 2005. Innovation of the pineapple sector: the Ghanaian experience. Sulaiman, Rasheed. 2005. Medicinal plants in India: challenges and opportunities to develop innovation capacity. Taher, Muhammad. 2005. Small-scale food processing in Bangladesh: a diagnostic innovation system study. Sulaiman, Rasheed. 2005. The story of Vanilla in Kerala: Shifting from sector forgetting to sector learning. Mytelka, Lynn, & Bortagaray, Isabel. 2005. Strengthening the agricultural innovation system in Colombia: An analysis of the cassava and flower sectors.

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