From cocoa farms in West Africa to Zambia’s Miombo landscapes: the Six Step Approach for scaling innovations from research to investment
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT applies the Six-Step Approach in Zambia to scale low-emission innovations, shaping a €6 million restoration initiative and strategies for restoring degraded Miombo landscapes and strengthening sustainable livelihoods.
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From cocoa farms in West Africa to Zambia’s Miombo landscapes: the Six Step Approach for scaling innovations from research to investment
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT applies the Six-Step Approach in Zambia to scale low-emission innovations, shaping a €6 million restoration initiative and strategies for restoring degraded Miombo landscapes and strengthening sustainable livelihoods.
In Zambia, the Six Step Approach for scaling low emission food systems helped shape the formulation of a €6 million initiative supported by Italian Cooperation, translating stakeholder priorities and research evidence into a project for restoring degraded Miombo landscapes and strengthening sustainable livelihoods. In West Africa, the same approach is being used to work with cocoa sector stakeholders across Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Cameroon to understand what is needed to scale agroforestry in practice.
These two experiences show how a tool designed to support scaling can be used at different stages of the journey from research to action. In Zambia, located in southern Africa it helped shape the formulation of the BIOLOB project. In West Africa, it is being used to work with stakeholders to identify and address the conditions that can enable an existing innovation to scale.
The contexts are different, but the question is the same: what needs to be in place for an innovation to move beyond evidence and become something that can be adopted, supported and sustained?