Innovation platforms as spaces for change and transformation in

rural communitiesAlan Duncan

MilkIT Pre-inception Workshop, Nairobi24th – 25th January 2012

The conventional approach to livestock feed development

Technologies

Rural farmer

Collector Processor

Consumer

Input supplier

Coop

Research Extension

Conventional approach: research to

farmerInnovation

Systems Approach: research inside

Research Extension

Participatory revolution:

feedback loops

FAP

6

Seedsourced

44 farmers plant on

own fields

X-bred cows sourced

Farmers purchase

seed

60 farmers plant on

own fields

Milk transport issues voiced

May 2008

Dec 2009

Institutional innovationTechnical innovation

Innovation processes in Ada’a Ethiopia

Fodder options

identified

FAP

IPMS Ministry (extension)

NARSFAP

IPMS Ministry (extension)

NARS

Farmers

Dairy co-op formed

FAP

IPMS Ministry (extension)

NARS

Ethiopian Meat & Dairy

Tech Inst.

Eden FieldSeeds

Land o Lakes

Farmers

IPMS Ministry (extension)

NARS

Ethiopian Meat & Dairy

Tech Inst.

Eden FieldSeeds

Land o Lakes

FAPMilk transport negotiations

ongoing

FAP

IPMS Ministry (extension)

NARS

FAP

Eden FieldSeeds

Land o Lakes

Ada’a Dairy Co-op

Crop Growplc

Godino DairyCo-op

Farmers

IPMS Ministry (extension)

NARSEthiopian Meat & Dairy

Tech Inst.

Eden FieldSeeds

Land o Lakes

Ada’a Dairy Co-op

Crop Growplc

Godino DairyCo-op

NBDC

Local Research

NGO

Private sector

Woreda extension

Woreda water

Woreda admin

Champion farmers

Woreda offices

NBDC research

outputs

National

research

Indigenous knowledge

Business ideas

CommComm

CommAction 1

Actio

n 2

Action 3

Platforms based around NRM

Innovation funds