Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia

The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services (CIS) and climate-smart agricultural (CSA) to millions o...

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Main Authors: Minh, Thai Thi, Jacobs-Mata, Inga, Mutenje, Munyaradzi, Pele, Winnie, Ngowenani, Nohayi, Muzungaire, Lizzy
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119244
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author Minh, Thai Thi
Jacobs-Mata, Inga
Mutenje, Munyaradzi
Pele, Winnie
Ngowenani, Nohayi
Muzungaire, Lizzy
author_browse Jacobs-Mata, Inga
Minh, Thai Thi
Mutenje, Munyaradzi
Muzungaire, Lizzy
Ngowenani, Nohayi
Pele, Winnie
author_facet Minh, Thai Thi
Jacobs-Mata, Inga
Mutenje, Munyaradzi
Pele, Winnie
Ngowenani, Nohayi
Muzungaire, Lizzy
author_sort Minh, Thai Thi
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description The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services (CIS) and climate-smart agricultural (CSA) to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. Under AICCRA-Zambia, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) partners with national universities and private sector entities to implement the internship and innovation grant program with the private sector (I2G program) to generate capabilities of individuals and institutions to deliver on the ‘translational research’ into business and commercialization. The I2G program supports young entrepreneurs and young professionals through the private sector working experience and demand-driven innovation development. The overall objective of I2G program is to build greater trust, knowledge sharing, and collaboration between the private sector, public sector, and research institutions that, in turn, contribute to an enabling environment to scale CSA-CIS bundles in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. Specific objectives of the I2G program include: support young entrepreneurs and young professionals through the private sector working experience and demand-driven innovation development; catalyze contextually relevant technical, social and financial innovations to support CSA-CIS scaling; create scientific evidence to catalyze innovative approaches to CSA agribusiness; create and foster national research – private sector partnerships to catalyze CSA-CIS scaling; and strengthen systemic capacity to be responsive and inclusive to scaling of CSA-CIS bundles. The I2G program has been implemented through five modalities: the internship with private sector entities, CSA-CIS hackathon for innovation development, business incubation for innovation commercialization, CSA-CIS demand-driven research, and CSA-CIS integration into educational curriculums. Centre to these modalities is the co-identification of CSA-CIS-related needs and challenges in relation to CSA-CIS scaling in Zambia which private sector actors, including smallholder farmers, are facing with.
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spelling CGSpace1192442025-11-11T16:39:52Z Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia Minh, Thai Thi Jacobs-Mata, Inga Mutenje, Munyaradzi Pele, Winnie Ngowenani, Nohayi Muzungaire, Lizzy agriculture innovation climate change climate-smart agriculture The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services (CIS) and climate-smart agricultural (CSA) to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. Under AICCRA-Zambia, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) partners with national universities and private sector entities to implement the internship and innovation grant program with the private sector (I2G program) to generate capabilities of individuals and institutions to deliver on the ‘translational research’ into business and commercialization. The I2G program supports young entrepreneurs and young professionals through the private sector working experience and demand-driven innovation development. The overall objective of I2G program is to build greater trust, knowledge sharing, and collaboration between the private sector, public sector, and research institutions that, in turn, contribute to an enabling environment to scale CSA-CIS bundles in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. Specific objectives of the I2G program include: support young entrepreneurs and young professionals through the private sector working experience and demand-driven innovation development; catalyze contextually relevant technical, social and financial innovations to support CSA-CIS scaling; create scientific evidence to catalyze innovative approaches to CSA agribusiness; create and foster national research – private sector partnerships to catalyze CSA-CIS scaling; and strengthen systemic capacity to be responsive and inclusive to scaling of CSA-CIS bundles. The I2G program has been implemented through five modalities: the internship with private sector entities, CSA-CIS hackathon for innovation development, business incubation for innovation commercialization, CSA-CIS demand-driven research, and CSA-CIS integration into educational curriculums. Centre to these modalities is the co-identification of CSA-CIS-related needs and challenges in relation to CSA-CIS scaling in Zambia which private sector actors, including smallholder farmers, are facing with. 2022-03-31 2022-04-04T16:31:05Z 2022-04-04T16:31:05Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119244 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Min TT, Jacobs-Mata I, Mutenje M, Pele W, Ngowenani N, Muzungaire L. 2022. Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
spellingShingle agriculture
innovation
climate change
climate-smart agriculture
Minh, Thai Thi
Jacobs-Mata, Inga
Mutenje, Munyaradzi
Pele, Winnie
Ngowenani, Nohayi
Muzungaire, Lizzy
Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia
title Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia
title_full Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia
title_fullStr Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia
title_full_unstemmed Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia
title_short Internship and innovation program under the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project in Zambia
title_sort internship and innovation program under the accelerating the impact of cgiar climate research for africa aiccra project in zambia
topic agriculture
innovation
climate change
climate-smart agriculture
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119244
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