Scale Up Sourcebook

The Scale Up Sourcebook is informed and inspired by the September 2018 conference, Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions, organized by Purdue University, in partnership with the African Development Bank.

The Sourcebook consolidates, extends, and disseminates some of the scaling insights presented at the Purdue conference. It is intended as an easy-to-use guidebook targeted to a broad and diverse audience of stakeholders associated with scaling agricultural technologies and innovations to meet the needs of the world’s poor.

The Sourcebook has following chapters:

designing with scale in mind;
assessing scalability;
using commercial markets to drive scaling;
financing the transition to scale;
creating an enabling environment for scale;
tailoring metrics, monitoring, and evaluation to support sustainable outcomes at scale;
and the critical role of intermediary and donor organizations.

The Sourcebook provides guidance, tips, and examples, along with links and references to additional resources on scale up.

Related:

Richard Kohl and Colm Foy, Guide to the Agricultural Scalability Assessment Tool for Assessing and Improving the Scaling of Agricultural Technologies (USAID, 2018)

USAID’s Bureau for Food Security (BFS) and country missions have been implementing the Feed the Future (FTF) food security initiative since 2010. In many cases, small-scale innovations developed and introduced by FTF have since scaled up or are in the process of doing so. However, some innovations that could have gone to scale have not done so, have not reached their full-scale potential, or are not fully sustainable at scale.

At the same time, the BFS has funded research by the Consortium of International Agronomic Research Centers (CGIAR) and innovation laboratories at major U.S. agricultural universities. This research has produced hundreds of innovations with varying potential to transform agriculture in developing countries, as well as more that are moving through the research pipeline. The Agency needs to be able to decide which innovations have the greatest potential for both successful scaling and significantly improving food security and reducing malnutrition across FTF countries and elsewhere.

Related

25-27 September 2018. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. the Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions conference focused on effective approaches to scaling up agricultural technologies and innovations in the developing world.

Scaled-up agricultural technologies and innovations can be a game-changer in food-insecure countries. This conference sought to address the following questions about scale up:

What hinders large scale adoption?
What makes things scalable?
What driving factors are critical for successful scale up? (e.g., markets, capital, policy, behavioral changes)
How can multi-stakeholder partnerships and initiatives facilitate success?
What has worked, what hasn’t, and why?
Who can I connect with at the conference to enhance scale up efforts?

This conference was intended for multiple audiences in the research to impact continuum.
Researchers: Increase the potential for successful commercialization of research efforts by better understanding scale up requirements and partner needs

Implementing organizations: Gain insight to working with donors, governments and industries for scaling up innovations toward sustainable agriculture
Business community: Understand the role and needs of both large agriculture companies and local businesses in scaling up. Develop and strengthen partnerships to expand markets
Policymakers: Understand how the regulatory framework and enabling environment catalyze or inhibit technology scale up that impacts the agricultural sector
Donors and investment communities: Understand the opportunities, challenges, and focus of the research community and implementing organizations, to form early relationships with attention to scale up needs

Sourcebook
Posters

ScaleUp Conference Program (36 pages)

Conference Opening KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Scale Up: A Necessity for Transformative Development Akinwumi Adesina – President, African Development Bank Group

"I remember as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) promoting new high-yielding varieties of sorghum to farmers in Sikasso (Mali) . But - asked the farmers - will ICRISAT buy the sorghum? In other words—innovation is great, but where is the market? Technologies must be profitable, and there must be a buyer for the additional production."

Session 1 Planning with Scale in Mind

Larry Cooley - President Emeritus of Management Systems International (MSI) and Curator of Global Community of Practice on Scaling Up Development Outcomes

The numbers tell an different story....

5% less than 5% of pilot projects ever reach national scale

1/35 for every dollar of official donor and philanthropic assist ance to developing countries, those same countries now spend 35 of their own tax dollar

15 The pathway from innovation to scale, even when successful, takes an average of 15 years

Double, double ; half, half. The number of donors has doubled over the last decade; the average project is under a million dollars, the average duration is less than two years. The pilots to nowhere going up not down

Dieudonné Baributsa – Associate Professor, Purdue University
Kola Masha – Managing Director, Babban Gona
Simon Winter – Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation

Session 2 Assessing Scalability

Richard Kohl – Lead Consultant and VP for Scaling and Strategy, Strategy and Scale LLC Stewart Center Loeb Playhouse
Mark Edge – Director of Collaborations for Developing Countries, Bayer
Julie Howard – Non-resident Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies (formerly Chief Scientist at USAID)
Lennart Woltering – Scaling Advisor, International Maize and Wheat Research Center (CIMMYT)

Session 3 Market Success and Access to Finance
Session 3 - Part 1: Markets

Introduction to Markets and Finance as Critical Drivers for Successful Scaling Charlene McKoin – Independent Consultant, McKoin International Development
Sriram Bharatam – Founder & CEO, Kuza.One
Jennifer Billings – Agriculture Development Leader, Corteva Agriscience™
John Ellenberger – Senior Vice President, Land O’Lakes International Development
Kevin Pixley – Director of Genetic Resources Program and Seeds of Discovery Program, CIMMYT
Fanus Swart – General Manager, Curativo
Simon Winter – Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Session 3 - Part 2: Access to finance

Seed Capital Timothy Runnalls – Senior Director of Real Assets, Ascension Investment Management
Patricia Dinneen – Senior Advisor, Chair of Impact Investing Council, Emerging Market Private Equity Association (EMPEA)
Brian Heese – Director, Investor Relations, One Acre Fund
Brian Milder – Executive VP, Strategy & Innovation; Director, Smallholder Agricultural Finance, Root Capital
Mezuo Nwuneli – Managing Partner, Sahel Capital Agribusiness Managers Ltd

Session 4: Laying the Foundations for Successful Scaling and Supporting the Scaling Process

Johannes Linn – Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
William Ryerson – Founder and President, Population Media Center
David Spielman – Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Session 5 Effectively Engaging and Leveraging Partners

The Importance of Partnerships to Catalyze and Sustain Inclusive Agricultural Transformation (IAT) in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: BMGF Perspective Enock Chikava – Deputy Director, Agricultural Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Extension. Tunji Arokoyo – Prof.; Consultant Agriculturist and Participatory Extension Specialist and Trainer, Ahmadu Bello University
Local Business. Suraj Devani – Director, Pee Pee Tanzania Ltd. (PPTL)
Smallholder Farmers. Brian Heese – Director, Investor Relations, One Acre Fund
Development Organization-Facilitated PPPs. Floortje Jacobs –Public-Private Partnerships Advisor, SNV Netherlands Development Organization
Global Company. Thavy Staal – Sustainability and Project Manager, Crop Protection Africa and Middle East, BASF

Lunch Presentations

From Thousands to Millions: Selected World Bank Experience on Scaling Up Innovations in Agriculture - Simeon Ehui

A Robust Ecosystem to Support Entrepreneurial Activity - Tim Peoples

Session 6: Examples of Successes and Failures; Lessons Learned

Introduction to Case Studies

“It says something that it took so much work and so many experts to identify so few documented cases of interventions that scaled successfully and sustainably.” Mark Huisenga, Senior Program Manager at USAID

Sunday, August 18, 2019