The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling
Smallholder farming in Ethiopia faces challenges with poor nutrient use efficiency and low yields. Addressing these issues requires site-specific nutrient management strategies. Since 2020, a landscape-based fertilizer advisory has been developed, co-validated, and piloted to improve fertilizer use...
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| author | Desta, Gizaw Melesse, Mequanint B. Sartas, Murat Agegnehu, Getachew Tigabie, Abiro Legesse, Gizachew Desalegn, Henok Amede, Tilahun Jat, Mangi Lal Harawa, Rebbie |
| author_browse | Agegnehu, Getachew Amede, Tilahun Desalegn, Henok Desta, Gizaw Harawa, Rebbie Jat, Mangi Lal Legesse, Gizachew Melesse, Mequanint B. Sartas, Murat Tigabie, Abiro |
| author_facet | Desta, Gizaw Melesse, Mequanint B. Sartas, Murat Agegnehu, Getachew Tigabie, Abiro Legesse, Gizachew Desalegn, Henok Amede, Tilahun Jat, Mangi Lal Harawa, Rebbie |
| author_sort | Desta, Gizaw |
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| description | Smallholder farming in Ethiopia faces challenges with poor nutrient use efficiency and low yields. Addressing these issues requires site-specific nutrient management strategies. Since 2020, a landscape-based fertilizer advisory has been developed, co-validated, and piloted to improve fertilizer use efficiency, lower costs for smallholder farmers, and promote environmental sustainability. This effort has been catalyzed by the CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy Initiative and driven by demand partners from the local to the national level. This paper systematically analyzes the process and practice of scaling up this innovation, using an agricultural innovation system (AIS) analysis. Using a contextualized innovation scaling framework, we examine the dissemination process and mechanisms, key drivers of scalability, the institutional collaboration and governance of the scaling process and practices. We emphasize the importance of a demand-driven, participatory, and collaborative scaling process that guides the analysis of scaling drivers, diffusion pathways, barriers, and strategies for responsible scaling from both local (horizontal scaling) and national (vertical scaling) perspectives. This scaling process has led to a localized, farmer-relevant nutrient management approach that delivers optimized and cost-effective advisory services. Consequently, farmers have demonstrated significant improvements in understanding (86–94 %) and implementing the landscape-based advisory (75–91 %), with usability scores ranging from 4.2 to 5.2 out of 7. This paper provides insights and guidance to facilitate the transition from delivery to scaling agricultural innovations on a large scale, emphasizing the importance of a contextualized science of scaling and pathways, customized strategies, successful partnerships, responsible scaling, and ongoing efforts to overcome emerging barriers to effective scaling. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1781562025-11-26T02:14:00Z The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling Desta, Gizaw Melesse, Mequanint B. Sartas, Murat Agegnehu, Getachew Tigabie, Abiro Legesse, Gizachew Desalegn, Henok Amede, Tilahun Jat, Mangi Lal Harawa, Rebbie fertilizers landscape frameworks soil management climate-smart agriculture advisory services Smallholder farming in Ethiopia faces challenges with poor nutrient use efficiency and low yields. Addressing these issues requires site-specific nutrient management strategies. Since 2020, a landscape-based fertilizer advisory has been developed, co-validated, and piloted to improve fertilizer use efficiency, lower costs for smallholder farmers, and promote environmental sustainability. This effort has been catalyzed by the CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy Initiative and driven by demand partners from the local to the national level. This paper systematically analyzes the process and practice of scaling up this innovation, using an agricultural innovation system (AIS) analysis. Using a contextualized innovation scaling framework, we examine the dissemination process and mechanisms, key drivers of scalability, the institutional collaboration and governance of the scaling process and practices. We emphasize the importance of a demand-driven, participatory, and collaborative scaling process that guides the analysis of scaling drivers, diffusion pathways, barriers, and strategies for responsible scaling from both local (horizontal scaling) and national (vertical scaling) perspectives. This scaling process has led to a localized, farmer-relevant nutrient management approach that delivers optimized and cost-effective advisory services. Consequently, farmers have demonstrated significant improvements in understanding (86–94 %) and implementing the landscape-based advisory (75–91 %), with usability scores ranging from 4.2 to 5.2 out of 7. This paper provides insights and guidance to facilitate the transition from delivery to scaling agricultural innovations on a large scale, emphasizing the importance of a contextualized science of scaling and pathways, customized strategies, successful partnerships, responsible scaling, and ongoing efforts to overcome emerging barriers to effective scaling. 2025-12-01 2025-11-25T07:27:09Z 2025-11-25T07:27:09Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178156 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Desta, G., Melesse, M. B., Sartas, M., Agegnehu, G., Tigabie, A., Legesse, G., Desalegn, H., Amede, T., Jat, M.L. and Harawa, R. 2025. The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling. Sustainable Futures 10:101167. |
| spellingShingle | fertilizers landscape frameworks soil management climate-smart agriculture advisory services Desta, Gizaw Melesse, Mequanint B. Sartas, Murat Agegnehu, Getachew Tigabie, Abiro Legesse, Gizachew Desalegn, Henok Amede, Tilahun Jat, Mangi Lal Harawa, Rebbie The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling |
| title | The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling |
| title_full | The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling |
| title_fullStr | The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling |
| title_full_unstemmed | The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling |
| title_short | The practice of scaling landscape-based fertilizer advisory in Ethiopia: Drivers, pathways, and strategies for upstream-downstream integration for scaling |
| title_sort | practice of scaling landscape based fertilizer advisory in ethiopia drivers pathways and strategies for upstream downstream integration for scaling |
| topic | fertilizers landscape frameworks soil management climate-smart agriculture advisory services |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178156 |
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