From Knowledge to Action: How AKIS and Scaling Science Strengthen the Transformation of Agrifood Systems
There are technologies, practices, and solutions with the potential to improve agriculture. However, for that potential to translate into real impact, technological and social innovations must respond to the needs of territories, adapt to different contexts, and be sustained over time. This raises a key question: how can we advance innovations to respond to the needs of people and territories?
- Africa
- Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Action
- Climate Resilience
- farmers
From Knowledge to Action: How AKIS and Scaling Science Strengthen the Transformation of Agrifood Systems
There are technologies, practices, and solutions with the potential to improve agriculture. However, for that potential to translate into real impact, technological and social innovations must respond to the needs of territories, adapt to different contexts, and be sustained over time. This raises a key question: how can we advance innovations to respond to the needs of people and territories?
This question becomes even more relevant in the face of challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss, which make it increasingly urgent to move toward more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive agrifood systems. In this context, developing new technologies is essential, but so is ensuring that innovations reach their users more quickly and respond to their needs, so that they can generate real impacts in the short term. To move in this direction, it is crucial to strengthen the way we generate, share, and use knowledge.
It is precisely at this point that Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) take on strategic relevance.