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Contents
Acknowledgements 1
Foreword 3
An overview 4
Innovation approaches and interventions 9
Integrated agricultural research for development 15
Purpose and methodologies used 18
The case studies 21
Eastern Africa 22
Ethiopia’s Sidama Coffee 22
Kenya’s dairy sector 24
Kenya, sweet potatoes 28
Kenya’s horticulture with special focus on vegetables 32
Rwanda’s climbing beans 37
Uganda’s dairy industry 40
Southern Africa 44
Botswana’s, beef sector. 44
Malawi, building public-private partnerships in the cotton sector 46
Malawi, overcoming market challenges – the case of groundnuts 49
Malawi, increasing the availability of legume seed 53
Malawi, SSA CP ZMM Pilot Learning Sites, Balaka and Zomba districts 56
Zambia’s conservation agriculture 59
West Africa 63
Cameroon, production and marketing of bananas 63
Cameroon’s garlic industry 65
Ghana’s pineapple industry 67
Ghana’s growing cassava sector 70
Niger’s vegetable production 73
Nigeria’s cassava production and processing sector 75
Nigeria, rice production in Katsina State 79
A comparative analysis of the case studies 82
Contrasting cases 82
Scale, type and phase of the innovation process 82
Challenges and opportunities 82
Stakeholders and their roles during the innovation process 86
Types and consequences of interaction 92
Context comparison before and after success 94
Key factors contributing to success 97