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SCALING UP IN AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

The Agriculture, Rural Development, and Social Enterprises (ARDSE) Working Group is made up of individuals from more than 100 official donors, foundations, think tanks, research and development organizations united by their interest in scaling the impact of innovations on food security and rural poverty.

The group focuses on several interest areas including:

  • Designing for scale
  • Using scaling frameworks
  • Learning about scaling
  • Responsible scaling
  • Sustainability and system thinking.

Members of the Working Group include professionals with vast experience from the field, and the group explicitly tries to learn from the application of complex concepts such as sustainability, systems change and scaling in real world settings by local actors. In addition to quarterly virtual meetings, the Working Group encourages and supports exchanges among its members on a variety of subjects. Like all CoP Working Groups, participation in, and management of, the ARD Working Group is done on a purely voluntary basis.

This working group exists to facilitate discussion and knowledge exchange on how scaling existing approaches – strategies, interventions, and financing models – can accelerate climate action and impact. This working group has organized a webinar on scaling private adaptation finance and produced a blog on scaling financing for biodiversity.

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Scaling Readiness: An Approach to Assess and Accelerate Scaling of Agri-Food Systems Innovations (IITA)

Scaling Readiness: An Approach to Assess and Accelerate Scaling of Agri-Food Systems Innovations (IITA)

Scaling of agricultural, food and other livelihoods innovations is one of the biggest challenges for research and development organizations. One of the key problems is the lack of approaches that can facilitate evidence-based decision making on which activities and partnerships can support scaling of innovation towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Scaling Readiness has been developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Wageningen University (WUR) under the CGIAR research program on Roots Tubers and Banana (RTB). Scaling ...
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SWFF Innovators Take Specific Industry-Relevant Actions to Drive Enterprise Scale-Up (USAID)

SWFF Innovators Take Specific Industry-Relevant Actions to Drive Enterprise Scale-Up (USAID)

By Alexis Bonnell abonnell@usaid.gov “Securing Water for Food”, through the Technical Assistance Facility, supports mission-driven innovators by providing acceleration services that influence their pathway to scale-up and help them to pinpoint key management decisions that enable their success. From determining innovator commitment to grow and under- standing their ambition to scale, we work hand-in-hand with innovators to set realistic milestones and targets and guide them toward concrete, practical actions with targeted accelerations services. These services enhance skill sets, guide the ...
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Interview: Releasing the Energy of Rural Youth – Entrepreneurs Help their Neighbors Farm More Profitably (Syngenta)

Interview: Releasing the Energy of Rural Youth – Entrepreneurs Help their Neighbors Farm More Profitably (Syngenta)

By Robert Berlin robert.berlin@syngenta.com Young people continue to leave farms for the cities. Some, however, seize rural business opportunities if these become available. Their enthusiasm can lift entire agricultural communities. Robert Berlin, Head of Agriservices at the Syngenta Foundation, explains. Question: What do you see as the greatest barrier to improving smallholders’ livelihoods? Robert Berlin: In developing countries, a major agricultural challenge is access. For smallholders, access to a wide range of goods and services can catalyze the move from ...
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Purdue University Conference on “Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions” (Purdue University)

Purdue University Conference on “Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions” (Purdue University)

By Suzanne Nielsen nielsens@purdue.edu The Scale Up Conference, “Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions”, was held at Purdue University on Sept. 25-27, 2018. The conference brought together 225 individuals representing 100 organizations and 21 countries from around the world. Conference participants are engaged in the development, introduction, diffusion, and adoption of agri- cultural innovations that have the potential to reach millions of people. Attendees represented researchers, entrepreneurs, implementing organizations, small and large businesses, donor organizations, and government funding ...
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