From pilots to systems change: Scaling gender-transformative socio-technical innovation bundles in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation depends not only on better technologies, but on better systems: systems that work for women, youth, and smallholder farmers who form the backbone of the sector. In September 2025, a diverse coalition of stakeholders came together in Addis Ababa to confront a critical question: How do we move from promising gender-transformative pilots to sustainable, system-wide impact?
- Agricultural Innovation
- crops
- gender
From pilots to systems change: Scaling gender-transformative socio-technical innovation bundles in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation depends not only on better technologies, but on better systems: systems that work for women, youth, and smallholder farmers who form the backbone of the sector. In September 2025, a diverse coalition of stakeholders came together in Addis Ababa to confront a critical question: How do we move from promising gender-transformative pilots to sustainable, system-wide impact?
The Gender-Transformative Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles (GTSTIBs) Scaling Stakeholder Workshop, convened by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT with partners including the World Vegetable Center, SNV, Green Agro-Solution (Lersha), PABRA and icipe, marked a decisive shift from validating innovation to planning for scale.