Session Blurb Speakers Recording Additional Resources Scaling challenges are increasingly recognized as complex, systemic, and rarely solvable by single actors or linear approaches. As a result, development organizations are moving away from viewing scaling as a process of simple expansion or replication, and toward acknowledging that many scaling challenges require multiple organizations working together, through diverse and complementary pathways, to achieve durable impact.Within contemporary development discourse, scaling has evolved beyond notions of reach or growth to encompass how interventions, practices, ...
Over 2.5 billion people can’t afford a healthy diet. Over half of all children and two out of three women globally are deficient in the essential micronutrients they need to thrive—affording nutritious foods is out of reach for many. For more than two decades, biofortification has proven to be a cost-effective, food-based solution to address hidden hunger. Scaling has gained momentum and millions of farming households and consumers in non-farming households globally, are now growing and eating biofortified foods, making ...
The Sahel—home to approximately 180 million people living in off-grid, rural communities—is among the world’s most food-insecure and climate-vulnerable regions. Insufficient access to effective storage solutions leads many women and girls to make frequent and lengthy market trips, contributes to significant food losses, and limits regular consumption of nutritious fruits and vegetables. Clay pot coolers are simple, affordable, and effective devices that can solve these challenges for many families and improve food security for communities. CoolVeg’s clay pot cooler training ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Introduction Despite considerable efforts to promote innovation in the agricultural sector, a significant amount of technology either remains on the shelf or is not effectively scaled to reach its intended beneficiaries – the farmers and marginalized communities it is meant to support. This is true across publicly funded programs and projects, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors prioritize striking a balance between fostering innovation and expanding stakeholder access to technology and ...
Social enterprises, through their combination of social mission and business approach, offer a unique point of entry into tackling scaling challenges in agriculture, particularly for groups such as smallholder farmers, youth, and women. Through innovative models, social enterprises can drive adoption in rural communities through financing and logistical networks, building more resilient, prosperous communities. Evidence shows that social enterprise can advance scale in agriculture. However, the effectiveness of these enterprises largely depends on the institutional ecosystem in which they operate ...
Reflections from discussions convened in Cape Town, South Africa – 6 October 2025, sponsored by the CGIAR Scaling for Impact Program and hosted by Responsible Innovations. Authors include Erin McGuire, Ashley Mutiso, Eva Valencia Lenero, Hanna Ewell, Ojongetakah Enokenwa Baa, Dorcas Sanginga, Ana Maria Paez, Julie Newton, Anne Rietveld, Marya Hillesland, Lena Keller-Bischoff, Karen Nortje, Emily Hillenbrand, A group of scaling scientists, gender specialists, and innovation researchers met in Cape Town, South Africa, to reflect on how agricultural research for ...
