The influence of multilevel innovation platforms on continuing utilization of smallholders’ livestock feeding practices

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6149705
AutoresZelalem Lema (0000-0001-9275-8828, University of New England, autor de correspondencia), Lisa Lobry De Bruyn (0000-0003-0173-2863, University of New England), Lisa A Lobry de Bruyn (University of New England), Graham R Marshall (0000-0002-9413-4303, University of New England), Romana Roschinsky (0000-0002-0444-5571, University of New England), Million Gebreyes (0000-0002-1827-6756, International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), Alan J Duncan (0000-0002-3954-3067, Roslin Institute)
Año2023
Volumen14
Número2
Páginas357-382
Fecha de publicación2023-02-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInnovation and Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2157-9318 • E-ISSN: 2157-930X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2157930x.2023.2178877
OpenAlexW4320723989
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas18

Agricultural research for development agencies in sub-Saharan Africa increasingly implements innovation platforms (IPs) to address institutional barriers to innovation in smallholder agriculture. This research aims to understand the activities, actions or arrangements that were mediated by a multilevel set of IPs to sustain the use of livestock feeding practices in the Ethiopian Highlands. Data was collected two years after the multilevel IPs had been phased out to ascertain if innovation outcomes had been sustained beyond the life of the project. The study identified specific IP interventions that constrained or enabled sustained use of the livestock innovations among two groups of smallholders based on their livestock production objective, i.e., commercially oriented or subsistence. Where the feed innovations had been tailored to specific enterprises and aligned to farmers' production goals, such as improved dairy farming, they were sustained. Transitioning to a livestock feed system was enabled in the case of commercially oriented smallholders and remained a challenge for subsistence-oriented smallholders, especially where access to forage seeds and affordable input services is limited. Finally mechanisms and strategies to inform similar future interventions to support the development of different groups of farmers along the value chain to achieve impact beyond project period are presented

Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Economics · Geography · Livestock · Production (economics · Psychological intervention · Subsistence agriculture · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Forestry