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From policy promises to result through innovation in African agriculture?

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Title From policy promises to result through innovation in African agriculture?
 
Creator Haug, R.
Nchimbi-Msolla, S.
Cacchiarelli, L.
Murage, A.W.
Moeletsi, M.
Magalasi, M.
Mutimura, Mupenzi
Hundessa, F.
Westengen, O.T.
 
Subject innovation adoption
livestock
policies
agriculture
 
Description The problem addressed in this paper is the challenge of moving from formulating policy goals to achieving the promised results. The purpose is to assess the possible role of innovation in agriculture as a way of contributing towards achieving the Malabo Declaration commitments and the zero hunger Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) in six African countries. Since the SDGs are high on both international and many national agendas, there is a need to increase our knowledge of how to move beyond formulating goals. The approach includes both quantitative and qualitative data from a multisite research and development project. Moving from promises in relation to policy goals such as SDG2 and the Malabo Declaration to actions that make a difference at local level is a challenging task, and COVID-19 has added negatively to that challenge. Technological and institutional innovations exist that have the potential to improve the agricultural productivity, food security, and income levels of smallholder men and women farmers. However, innovation processes are hindered by barriers related to governmental, economic, knowledge-based, socio-cultural, and resource-based factors. To overcome these barriers, governance needs to go further than defining goals, and proceed to the next step of establishing effective implementation mechanisms that ensure the promised result.
 
Date 2021-06-01
2021-06-18T09:57:49Z
2021-06-18T09:57:49Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Haug, R., Nchimbi-Msolla, S., Murage, A., Moeletsi, M., Magalasi, M., Mutimura, M., Hundessa, F., Cacchiarelli, L. and Westengen, O.T. 2021. From policy promises to result through innovation in African agriculture? World 2(2):253-266.
2673-4060
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114006
https://doi.org/10.3390/world2020016
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 253-266
application/pdf
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Source World