Institutional Learning and Change: an introduction

Throughout the world, the pace of environmental, social and technological change is accelerating, and this in turn has major implications for the poor and their development prospects. Traditional transfer-of-technology approaches to agricultural research can no longer keep pace with the complex, div...

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Autores principales: Watts, Jamie, Mackay, Ronald, Horton, Douglas, Hall, A., Douthwaite, Boru, Chambers, Robert, Acosta, A.S.
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70607
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author Watts, Jamie
Mackay, Ronald
Horton, Douglas
Hall, A.
Douthwaite, Boru
Chambers, Robert
Acosta, A.S.
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Hall, A.
Horton, Douglas
Mackay, Ronald
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description Throughout the world, the pace of environmental, social and technological change is accelerating, and this in turn has major implications for the poor and their development prospects. Traditional transfer-of-technology approaches to agricultural research can no longer keep pace with the complex, diverse, risk-prone and dynamic realities of poor farmers. If agricultural research organizations are to be more successful in reducing poverty and increasing the sustainability of agricultural production systems, they must become less isolated, more interconnected and more responsive. In so doing, they must transform themselves into learning organizations, more in touch with field realities and better able to learn and to change. Recent research on the poverty alleviating impacts of technology associated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has identified institutional learning and change (ILAC) as a key area for intervention if research is to be more efficient and effective in serving the poor.
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spelling CGSpace706072025-11-05T08:43:26Z Institutional Learning and Change: an introduction Watts, Jamie Mackay, Ronald Horton, Douglas Hall, A. Douthwaite, Boru Chambers, Robert Acosta, A.S. learning poverty research agriculture Throughout the world, the pace of environmental, social and technological change is accelerating, and this in turn has major implications for the poor and their development prospects. Traditional transfer-of-technology approaches to agricultural research can no longer keep pace with the complex, diverse, risk-prone and dynamic realities of poor farmers. If agricultural research organizations are to be more successful in reducing poverty and increasing the sustainability of agricultural production systems, they must become less isolated, more interconnected and more responsive. In so doing, they must transform themselves into learning organizations, more in touch with field realities and better able to learn and to change. Recent research on the poverty alleviating impacts of technology associated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has identified institutional learning and change (ILAC) as a key area for intervention if research is to be more efficient and effective in serving the poor. 2007 2016-02-03T10:06:20Z 2016-02-03T10:06:20Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70607 en Open Access application/pdf Watts, J.; Mackay, R.; Horton, D.; Hall, A.; Douthwaite, B.; Chambers, R.; Acosta, A. (2007) Institutional Learning and Change: an introduction. ILAC Working Papers 3. 19 p.
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