Sartas, Murat
- Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
- Wageningen University
Sammanfattning
In the Lake Victoria Crescent Zone of central Uganda, farmers have over recent years been struggling with increasing poverty and malnutrition, due largely to low agricultural yields. In 2013, the CGIAR research programme Humidtropics initiated Innovation Platforms (IPs) in Uganda to join the farmers in their fight. Many organizations were involved in this work and they faced many pitfalls. Platform actors were dropping off along the way, some of the international research organizations involved gave the platform too little attention, and organizations tended to invest only in their preferred crops and commodities. A series of research for development (R4D) activities were initiated in response to the platform needs. These included situation analysis, baseline survey, market survey and agro-biodiversity survey. The Mukono-Wakiso platform worked through different institutions to answer farmers needs. Through its engagements the platform identified vegetables as the starting point and this resulted in the lobbying for the coming of the AVRDC-to Uganda.
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Titel: Innovation Platforms for Agricultural Development : Evaluating the mature innovation platforms landscape
Utgivare: Taylor and Francis Inc.
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- ISBN: 978-1-138-18171-7
- eISBN: 978-1-315-64681-7
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