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Book (stand-alone)Curriculum for training of Multi-actors Agricultural Innovation Platform facilitators 2025
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No results found.Mult-actors Agricultural Innovation Platform (MAIP) is established in rural communities where farmers and key value chain actors become empowered through participatory action research, knowledge co-creation and application, market linkages and so on. MAIPs, as a model for inclusive and collaborative innovation, are increasingly deployed in farmer communities to solve the last-mile bottleneck, namely, the empowerment of smallholder farmers and value chain actors to access innovation and services to drive field-level change. MAIP has been preliminarily tested and piloted in several FAO field projects and demonstrated great potential for scale-up. Field results showed that MAIPs facilitated small-scale producers, family farmers and other agrifood system actors to generate and access context-specific agricultural innovations and services. Facilitation has proved crucial for stimulating and underpinning interactions among MAIP actors. This is the key to supporting co-innovation and co-learning processes and enabling individuals or organizations to reflect on their experience and encourage critical thinking. Qualified MAIP facilitators, as value chain intermediaries and coordinators, usually come from specialized MAIP actors (e.g. researchers, extension agents, agricultural educationists, private-sector brokers, non-governmental organization (NGO) activists, traders and processors). They are normally trained through the specially designed training of MAIP facilitator course or through the implementation of a MAIP. This curriculum draws on the experience of the training course “Training of master trainers for establishing and operating Multi-actors Agricultural Innovation Platforms” co-organized by FAO and CAU on 11–15 July 2023. It serves as a useful tool for empowering MAIP facilitators to play a critical role in establishing and operating MAIPs. -
BookletInstitutionalizing multi-actors agricultural innovation platforms to foster field-level agricultural innovation systems by empowering smallholder farmers 2025
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No results found.The multi-actor agricultural innovation platforms (MAIPs) are co-innovation platforms established in rural communities where farmers and key value chain actors become empowered through participatory action research (PAR), knowledge co-creation and application, market linkages, policy engagement, and so on. These platforms effectively amalgamate knowledge and insights from researchers alongside the practical experience of farmers. MAIPs, aiming to meet the practical needs of farming communities, are conducive to building a collaborative relationship among multiple actors to activate their potential for co-innovation and develop integrated solutions. The effectivenesses of MAIPs are increasingly acknowledged, and thus their scale-up is now on the agenda. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an effective approach to institutionalizing them as integral agencies to contribute to agrifood system transformation towards sustainability. -
Book (stand-alone)Guide for training of facilitators of multi-actors agricultural innovation platforms 2022
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No results found.Facilitation has proved crucial for enabling the interaction of Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) actors to address the target and to innovate. This “Guide on training of facilitators of multi-actor agricultural innovation platform” is aimed at serving facilitators when multi-actor agricultural innovation platforms (MAIPs) are organized. Since MAIPs are still an emerging concept, there are not many cases to refer to. This guide mainly summarizes the experiences from the implementation of MAIPs in permission, hazelnuts and honey value chains that FAO organized through the EU-funded project of Development of sustainable and inclusive local food systems in north-west region of Azerbaijan (GCP/AZE/014/EC) and STB initiatives. This guide is a guideline tool, rather than a textbook for training MAIPs facilitators. Facilitators should keep in mind that MAIPs advocate learning by doing, through practice. They should conduct MAIPs by referring to the training activities in this book instead of copying. Although the authors have tried their best to make this guide applicable to agricultural production and social development in various places, it is difficult to cover all the content. Therefore, MAIPs facilitators using this book are encouraged to give full play to creativity and develop training activities and methods sensitive to local characteristics and value chains.
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