Negotiating a New Agricultural Innovation. LINKLook News bulletin March-April 2008

The recently-concluded International Food Policy Research Institute conference, "Advancing
Agriculture in Developing Countries through Knowledge and Innovation", was one more
signal that the idea of an innovation system is now an integral part of the new international
vision for agricultural development. In this month’s LINK LOOK Andy Hall says the
conference also revealed this ambition is yet to be translated into action. More worrying is
that critical sticking points - such as questions about how innovation should be evaluated
- arise from the closely-guarded disciplinary perspectives of a small but powerful group of
stakeholders in the international agricultural research community that has recently and
reluctantly hitched itself to the agricultural innovation systems bandwagon.

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