LINK (Learning INnovation, Knowledge) is a specialist network of regional innovation policy studies hubs established by the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to strengthen the interface between rural innovation studies, policy and practice and to promote North-South and South-South learning on rural innovation. |
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Agriculture in South Asia faces the spectre of the four modern day apocalyptic horsemen of the global economic system - hunger, climate change, trade competition and knowledge exclusion. In this month's LINK LOOK Andy Hall and Rasheed Sulaiman V. argue that South Asia - a region that is home to half the world's poor - is vulnerable to these challenges because of weaknesses in current patterns of agricultural innovation capacity. They also, however, argue that many of the capacity building blocks are already in place and that a few relatively simple institutional changes could unleash powerful creative forces capable of converting these harbingers of doom into poverty-reducing opportunities.
The LINK LOOK is an update of recent initiatives, projects, programmes and meetings that have moved on from a technology transfer focus and are grappling with the wider innovation perspective — and the capacity building agenda it implies. We invite contributions to this feature. |
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