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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetLinking agrifood SMEs to innovation for sustainable food systems: the role of multi-stakeholder approaches
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2023Also available in:
During this webinar, organized by the SFS-MED Platform and held on 13 October 2022, stakeholders from across the Mediterranean shared practical experiences of university-business cooperation, successful cases of innovation adoption and transfer, innovative pathways of capacity development, as well as provocative thoughts from investors and farmers. Panelists and speakers discussed about the needs and challenges that agrifood SMEs and farmers are experiencing in linking with innovation, and investigated possible pathways for transformation, leveraging the added value of multi-stakeholder approaches to promote the uptake of innovation. Moreover, the webinar allowed strengthening collaboration among the different partners and stakeholders shaping the agrifood ecosystem, that are essential to enable SMEs and farmers with solutions, tools and best practices. The discussion was instrumental in demonstrating that linking agrifood SMEs to innovation is key for a sustainable future of the Mediterranean food systems, where SMEs and small-scale producers are empowered as economic actors and agents of change for a blue, green and circular food system transition. There is a need for an interactive innovation ecosystem based on a multi-stakeholder collaboration process that is open and inclusive, where new technologies and organizational processes are co-designed by all food systems actors. To this effect, science diplomacy is a powerful tool to ensure that scientific knowledge is effectively shared and adequately translated to be used by non-scientific stakeholders, leveraging co-creation and win-win solutions through alliances that engage all shores of the Mediterranean on a level-playing field. Moreover, innovative capacity building and training programmes are instrumental in developing the human capital necessary to address skills mismatch between graduates and employment demand from the agri-business sector, enhancing the innovation chain through new professional profiles. Finally, sustainable finance and new financial mechanisms can be unlocked to enhance SME access to affordable innovation and technology. Business incubators and accelerators promote a change of mindset that can lead SMEs to embrace innovation by adopting new business models, matchmaking innovators and co-founders, and inspiring ideas. -
ArticleIntensity and embeddedness: Two dimensions of equity approaches in multi-stakeholder forums
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) have been positioned as a transformative solution for more sustainable decision-making in forestry, land use, and climate change interventions. Yet, there is much criticism about the possibility of these forums to address the power inequalities that frame interactions between different stakeholders to forests and their resources. Based on a systematic search of cases in the scholarly literature, we present a new approach to examining how MSFs organised at the jurisdictional level to deal with unsustainable land and resource use in forests address equity issues. We engage with MSFs from two key characteristics: the degree to which an MSF includes local peoples as part of a forest-landscape solution (its intensity), and the degree to which the MSF and its outcomes are part of the societal and institutional fabric of a given area (its embeddedness). The reason for focusing on these aspects is simple yet important: we propose that an MSF’s long-term resilience and success, and potential to promote equitable change is impeded if local peoples are not regarded as key partners and change-makers (rather than ‘beneficiaries’), and if the forum and/or its outcomes are not meaningfully institutionalized. Intensity and embeddedness are useful analytical tools that go beyond typologies that identify characteristics found in successful MSFs. These tools are helpful in terms of explaining how different approaches across different contexts function as classifying MSFs as either top-down, bottom-up, or a combination of both is not particularly useful. We also provide practical lessons from cases under different combinations of intensity and embeddedness. Keywords: Partnerships, Governance, Landscape management, Research, Social protection ID: 3624079
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