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Working Group 1.8
Innovation systems for smallholder farming
English speaking working group
Resource persons
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John Lynam, (Kilimo Trust) - Lawan Gwadabe (Seeds Project Company, Nigeria)
- Myra Wopereis Pura (FARA)
- Judith Francis (Technical Centre for Agricultural & Rural Cooperation ACP - EU (CTA))
Moderator
Questions to guide working group discussions
- How can we promote more demand-driven modes of innovation? How can users of new technology influence the research agenda?
- How can we more effectively engage different sources of innovation (Private sector, farmers, civil society, public sector research agencies)?
- What needs to be done to reform public research and extension?
- How can the private sector research capacity be more effectively harnessed? What is the role of public-private partnerships in research and what have we learned from experience?
- Is greater protection of intellectual property rights a help or a hindrance to agricultural innovation for the poor? What is the appropriate balance between creating incentives for private investment in research and making technologies available to the poor? How can this balance best be achieved?
- What are the implications for development strategies, and what do donors need to do differently?
These questions illustrate the range of issues that could be addressed by the working groups. While they should not be considered to be the only issues that may be discussed, and participants are at liberty to raise others that fall within the scope of the working groups, presenters are asked to consider giving priority to some of these questions.
Please note that all working groups are asked to consider: What are the implications for development strategies, and what do donors need to do differently?
partners: 
European Commission. Directorate General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations | Global Donor Platform for Rural Development | Department for International Development (DFID), UK | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany | Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France | Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation, The Netherlands | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) | Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany | InWEnt Capacity - Building International, Germany
John Lynam
