Agricultural innovation systems
Innovation
Role:
innovate and share innovations, provide demands to agricultural advisory services, agricultural research system, and agricultural education system.
Interacts with:
inner circle, agricultural advisory services, input and service suppliers, financial service suppliers, private sector actors, agricultural research system; to a limited extent with agricultural education system, and with the outer circle.
Examples:
- Family farmers
- Small-scale farmers
- Large-scale commercial farmers
- Fisherfolk
- Pastoralists
- Landless (honey, butterfly larvae producers, etc.)
Producer organisations
Role:
innovate and share innovations, provide
demands to agricultural advisory services,
agricultural research system, and agricultural
education system.
Interact with:
inner circle, agricultural advisory services,
input and service suppliers, financial service
suppliers, private sector actors, agricultural
research system; to a limited extent with
agricultural education system, and with the
outer circle.
Examples:
- Family farmers
- Small-scale farmers
- Large-scale commercial farmers
- Fisherfolk
- Pastoralists
- Landless (honey, butterfly larvae producers, etc.)
Agricultural advisory services
Role:
link producers with other actors in the agricultural innovation system; share information, educate producers, broker, empower, advise, innovate, and share innovations, assess demand.
Interact with:
the inner circle, producer organisations, private sector actors, agricultural research system, agricultural education system; to a limited extent with input and service suppliers, financial service suppliers, and the outer circle.
Examples:
- National governments
- Regional and local governments
- Non-governmental organisations
- Producer organisations
- Private sector
Private sector actors
Role:
innovate and share innovations; assess
demand, provide inputs, distribute inputs,
purchase, process, trade, and export produce,
educate, advise.
Interact with:
inner circle, agricultural advisory services, input
and service suppliers, financial service suppliers, agricultural research system; to a limited extent with agricultural education system, and with the outer circle.
Examples:
- Agroprocessors
- Input dealers
- Distributors
- Traders
- Exporters
- Large corporations
Agricultural research system
Role:
innovate and share innovations, assess demand,
conduct and communicate research, advise
producers; educate producers, private sector
actors, and agricultural advisory services.
Interacts with:
inner circle, agricultural advisory services,
agricultural education system; and to a limited
extent with input and service suppliers, financial
service suppliers, private sector actors, and the
outer circle.
Examples:
- Government actors
- Private sector actors
- Producers organisations
Agricultural education system
Role:
education, advisory services, research, innovate, and share innovations.
Interacts with:
inner circle, agricultural advisory services, agricultural research system; and to a limited degree input and service suppliers, financial service suppliers, private sector actors, and the outer circle.
Examples:
- Universities
- Schools (primary, secondary)
- Colleges
- Training institutions
- On-the-job training within institutions
- Informal education
- Vocational training
Financial service suppliers
Role:
provide loans and credit, advise producers.
Interact with:
producer organisations; and to a limited extent with the agricultural research system and agricultural advisory services.
Examples:
- Banks
- Microfinance institutions
- Microcredit, credit agencies
Input and service suppliers
Role:
provision of goods and services.
Interact with:
producers, agricultural advisory services.
Examples:
- Agrochemical retailers (fertilizers, pesticides)
- Machinery manufacturers, mechanics, retailers
- Seed suppliers and retailers
Government policy and regulatory framework
Role:
regulation, creation of standards; policy dialogue, policy making, set codes and standards within organisations.
Interacts with:
other actors in the outer circle; to a limited extent with the agricultural research system, producer organisations, and agricultural advisory services.
Examples:
- Regulating agencies
- Parliamentarians
- Heads of departments, senior managers
- Ministers
- Global or regional agencies
Examples:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, New Partnership for Africa’s Development, African Union, European Union.
Consumer demands
Role:
purchase products, create demand, influence policy.
Interact with:
producer organisations, agricultural advisory services; and to a limited extent with the agricultural research system, and the outer circle.
Types of interaction
1. Information exchange
2. Inputs/goods
3. Services
Types of interaction
1. Information exchange
2. Inputs/goods
3. Services
Types of interaction
1. Information exchange
2. Inputs/goods
3. Services
