Scaling
Achieving sustainable development requires large-scale system transformation. Innovation is at the heart of this transformation, and in many cases, suitable innovations already exist. What is often missing is the enabling environment to move innovations beyond pilot programs and take them to scale. Innovation scaling is a deliberate and planned effort to enable the use of innovations to have positive impact for many people across broad geographies. Innovation scaling is critical in agriculture and food systems to increase food, nutrition and water security, alleviate poverty and help small farmers adapt to climate change. Despite this potential, many scaling ecosystems are ineffective, and innovation uptake remains limited.
IWMI’s action research on innovation scaling for system transformation focuses on seven areas. These aim not just to identify and introduce new practices or technologies but also to consider ‘softer elements’ such as people, supply chains, markets, policies and power relations that constrain innovation adoption and system transformation. IWMI integrates all the elements to co-develop adaptive, inclusive, affordable and scalable innovation bundles for farmers and other value chain actors. All the focus areas contribute to the broader ambitions of a unified CGIAR to deliver transformational research centered on food, land and water systems in a climate crisis.
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Solar Energy for Agricultural Resilience (SoLAR) Phase II Inception Workshop in Kenya
Solar Energy for Agricultural Resilience (SoLAR) Phase II Inception Workshop in Bangladesh
Co-Designing Scaling Pathways for Solar Irrigation Technology Ownership in Nigeria: Household Survey/Discrete Choice Experiment
Multi-Stakeholder Validation Workshop: Preferences, Financing Models, and Scaling Pathways for Solar-Based Irrigation in Northern Nigeria
Agroecological transition pathways for India: scaling from homesteads to multifunctional landscapes
Responsible scaling for impact: inclusion and power in food, land and water systems