National Agricultural Innovation System Assessment in Eritrea

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
Agricultural Innovation ◽  
System Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Innovation System

scholarly journals Agro-Food Innovation and Sustainability Transition: A Conceptual Synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6897
Author(s):  
Xiangping Jia
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
System Innovation ◽  
Agricultural Innovation ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Agricultural Innovation System

The global community faces the challenge of feeding a growing population with declining resources, making transformation to sustainable agriculture and food systems all the more imperative and ‘innovation’ all the more crucial. In this study, agro-food system innovation (re)defines sustainability transition with a complexity construct of cross-scale interaction and an adaptive cycle of system change. By taking a panarchical view, top-down and bottom-up pathways to innovation can be reconciled and are not contradictory, enabling and constraining innovation at every level. This study breaks down the structure of the agricultural innovation system into four components based on multi-level perspectives of sustainability transition, namely: actors and communities, interaction and intermediaries, coherence and connectedness and regimes rules and landscape. Meanwhile, this research frames the functional construct of system innovation for food and agriculture with five perspectives drawing on broad inputs from different schools of thought, namely: knowledge management, user sophistication, entrepreneurial activities’ directionality and reflexive evaluation. This research advocates for an ecosystem approach to agricultural innovation that gives full play to niche-regime interactions using social-technical perspectives.

scholarly journals Sistem Inovasi : Peran dan Tantangan dalam Mendukung Pembangunan Pertanian

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Julian Witjaksono
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Agricultural Innovation ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Agricultural Innovation System

Innovation system as the added value for economic growth needs more attention not only on the national scale but also on the regional scale, particularly in agriculture. This study is the assessment of the innovation system particularly about the achievement of the agricultural innovation system in regional development. The research method was employed in 2015 by purposive sampling with the number of respondents was about 30. The respondents came from the stakeholders of farmers, university, private sector, and regional research institution. The sample area has been chosen in Konawe District, North Konawe District and East Kolaka as represent of this research. This paper aims to describe the data and information related to the evaluation worked on regional research and development institutions in supporting the innovation system. This assessment has shown that the development of the agricultural innovation system in regional autonomy faced some constraints and weaknesses, viz. Less synchronization, less coordination, lack of research funding, and less infrastructure.

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