Humidtropics, a CGIAR Research Program, seeks to transform the lives of the rural poor in tropical Americas, Asia and Africa. It uses integrated systems research and unique partnership platforms for better impact on poverty and eco-systems integrity. Humidtropics uses structured multi-stakeholder platforms to drive its research for development programs, as well as the agricultural innovation systems to ensure active participation of key stakeholders in program delivery. Their goal is to ensure active stakeholder participation, equity, accountability, transparency, and inclusive decision, and … [Read more...]
Capacity to Innovate: the Essence of Sustainability and Resilience
Integrated systems are complex wholes in which a range of social and biophysical processes interact across various levels and scales. Reorienting the dynamics of systems in favor of realizing desirable outcomes—for example, intermediate development outcomes—is essentially about changing the way people interact with each other and respond to their changing environment. This requires capabilities at the level of individuals, communities, organizations and networks, and those that have a mandate to catalyse and support innovation processes in society; e.g. international nongovernmental … [Read more...]