A preview of action-orientated assessment of agricultural innovation systems

FAO (2022) A preview of action-orientated assessment of agricultural innovation systems # 5 p.

The Research and Extension Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome is involved since 2018, with its partners, in the development of a methodology for conducting an action-orientated assessment of national agricultural innovation systems, in line with the recommendation of the FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG) to support FAO Members. The assessment is implemented in the frame of the TAP-AIS project.

1. The analytical tools are grouped together in a toolbox available to the assessment teams
2. Innovation case studies are used as proxy of the functioning of the national AIS and as pedagogic support material
3. High-level indicators are developed to measure the functions of the national AIS. 
4. Stakeholder network analysis is used to highlight issues of interaction, collaboration, influence and alignment between a variety of organizations.
5. Capacity analysis highlights the individual and organizational capacities needed for the proper functioning of the national AIS at different levels.
6. Analysis of the external environment 

Background

TAP-FAO : Developing capacities in agricultural innovation systems: scaling up the Tropical Agriculture Platform Framework

TAP-AIS is a project funded by the European Union and implemented by FAO. (2019-2024)

• Africa: Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal
• Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan
• Latin America: Colombia

This brochure (# 8 p.) presents the five-year TAP-AIS project (2019-2024) funded by the European Union, under the DeSIRA Initiative. The project has the main objective to strengthen capacities to innovate in national agricultural innovation systems (AIS) in the context of climate-relevant, productive, and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems in

The Agricultural Innovation System in Burkina Faso - witnesses 

To strengthen capacity to innovate in national Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) in the context of climate-relevant, productive, and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems. The project will facilitate the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) at the global level, strengthen regional and sub-regional organizations’ capacity to analyse and strengthen AIS at the regional level and will strengthen capacity to innovate in nine countries (five in Africa, three in Asia and one in Latin America).

In Burkina Faso, the TAP-AIS project builds on the CDAIS project.

• This project was coordinated by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation (MESRSI) in partnership with FAO and CIRAD between 2015 and 2019, with the financial support of the European Union. 
• CDAIS made it possible to design different tools and train new skills to support multi-stakeholder innovation communities and accelerate their innovation projects that encountered various technical, organizational or institutional obstacles. 
• The TAP-AIS project (2020-2022) is coordinated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Hydro-agricultural Development and Mechanization (MAAHM) in partnership with FAO Burkina Faso. 
• The knowledge and skills acquired during the CDAIS project are mobilized to strengthen synergies between key organizations that provide support services to innovation communities in the field of sustainable intensification of agriculture and adaptation to climate change.