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Purpose and methodologies used<br />
This review seeks to draw on the experiences of multiple stakeholder agricultural innovation<br />
approaches in the context of IAR4D in guiding a research agenda, subsequent knowledge<br />
generation and its use in improving food security and nutrition, reducing poverty and generating<br />
cash incomes for resource-poor farmers. The report draws on a range of case studies across<br />
SSA to compare and contrast the reasons for success from which lessons can be learned.<br />
The key tasks undertaken to identify the lessons for successful innovation were:<br />
• Identification and analysis of a range of successful applications of multiple stakeholder<br />
approaches, learning lessons and establishing the reasons for success through comparative<br />
analysis. The case studies selected include those initiated by FARA in its SSA CP PLS as well<br />
as other planned and opportunity-driven innovations<br />
• Review of available literature on each case study<br />
• Discussions with stakeholders and other key informants associated with the case studies<br />
• Comparative analysis of the challenges addressed, institutional arrangements and<br />
stakeholder interaction, the benefits arising (including production development or added<br />
value to products) and, where possible, the number of beneficiaries<br />
• Identification of the technological, policy and institutional innovations that fostered the<br />
success stories<br />
• Critical review of the successes, their outcomes, and lessons learned.<br />
A total of 21 case studies, six in Eastern Africa, eight in Southern Africa and seven in West Africa<br />
included six funded under FARA’s SSA CP were used. Selection was based on a representative<br />
sample across the three sub-regions and included:<br />
• Traditional sectors, including subsistence crops – sometimes processed<br />
• Niche sectors, including specialist crops<br />
• Sectors integrated with global markets through export commodities<br />
• Sectors offering large employment opportunities for the poor, aimed at either local or<br />
export commodities.<br />
In many cases more than one of these sectors was applicable. Other factors included:<br />
intensifying staple food production and developing processing techniques; integrating<br />
people and the environment; developing local organisations; establishing of public–private<br />
18 Agricultural Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa