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Item From Project interventions to Transformative Impacts: Charting Paths for Sustained Adoption of Agri-Food Innovations(2023) Olagoke, Adewole; Kassie, MenaleSustainable agriculture and resilient food systems require farmers to adopt agri-food innovations. Many development initiatives have promoted promising innovations, but achieving sustained adoption is challenging. Project interventions often witness fleeting uptake, with many farmers reverting to traditional practices when project cycles are over. This "project syndrome" phenomenon is a well-known issue in agricultural development, where farmers' adoption behavior is driven largely by project incentives rather than a genuine acceptance based on the potential benefits of the innovations, which hinders widespread impacts and a desirable systemic change. It calls for a shift from a project-centric approach to a more transformative one that prioritizes farmers' buy-in, stakeholder engagement, and co-execution of innovation processes and outcomes. This interactive dialogue session brings together a diverse group of stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, donors, policymakers, agro-dealers, and farmers, to discuss and chart the paths for sustained adoption of agri-food innovations. We will explore the incidence, underlying causes, and consequences of project syndrome and identify strategies to encourage organic and transformative adoption of Agri-Food innovations. The session will begin with a keynote presentation, setting the stage for subsequent interactions. Then, a panel discussion featuring experts from different regions with first-hand experience, insights, and recommendations to facilitate sustained adoption will follow. Among other relevant topics, the panel will provide perspectives on farmer-centered design and co-creation, local capacity-building, market incentives and value chains, and policy and governance frameworks. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions to the panel, share ideas and experiences, and co-create strategies necessary to achieve sustained adoption of agri-food innovations, leading to a lasting impact on the lives of farmers and their communities. Overall, this dialogue session provides a valuable platform for advancing the discourse on the sustained adoption of agri-food innovations and for catalyzing collective action towards transformative change.Item Harnessing the push-pull technology for biodiverse agroecosystems in East Africa: the UPSCALE project(2022) Poppenborg Martin, EmilyThe push-pull technology is a mixed cropping system practiced in smallholder tropical cereal farming in areas of East and Central Africa. Push-pull systems harness the chemical interactions of companion plants and insects to provide highly effective pest protection and yield enhancement of crops. In this talk I will present the EU Horizon 2020 project UPSCALE which is working to upscale the push-pull technology for sustainable agricultural intensification in East Africa and beyond. Major focal points of the project include investigation of how landscape-level factors influence the effectiveness of push-pull systems, how increases in the landscape-level amount of push-pull cropping influences arthropod communities within and outside crops, and how transdisciplinarity can help to address key bottlenecks for the implementation of push-pull practices at scale. From this I will discuss and highlight key knowledge and practice gaps for the broader expansion of biodiversity-enhancing intensification practices in tropical agroecosystems.Item La Estrategia de Adaptación al Cambio Climático de Quito como nueva perspectiva para Gubernamentalidad e Innovación Social(2023-06-05) Gierhake, KlausThe discussion about the implementation of the Convention on Climate Change is strongly determined by scientific and economic factors, particularly in the field of mitigation. While measures in the field of mitigation will certainly be necessary in the future, they should be considered alongside the field of adaptation. Contributions toward this from the social sciences are rare, but they would undoubtedly be necessary for achieving progress in the field of adaptation strategies. The concept of "governmentality" can be used to show the conceptual contradictions in the basic concepts of the Climate Change Convention, particularly in regard to implementation. These factors likely contribute to the unsatisfactory progress results that are addressed at every COP. The “Local Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change” of the Ecuadorian capital Quito shows how this conceptual design could be successfully improved. Based on such a snapshot, the approach presented in the "Comprehensive Social Innovation and Modernization of the Metropolitan District of Quito" presents possible scenarios on how or where local knowledge can be better integrated, how processes of social innovation can be triggered by combining existing knowledge, which actors are foreseeably involved in such a process, and where barriers to the implementation of such innovations exist. From this, a notable contribution presents itself, to not stop at the mere introduction of innovative individual projects for mitigation, where the diffusion of such pilot projects as regarded as an auto-matic given. An adaptation strategy can also be understood as diffusion of a comprehensive social innovation within in a space and its institutional actors, in which catalysts and barriers to such a pro-cess are identified, then strengthened or overcome. As such, it is an application-oriented use of social science knowledge. In addition, the perspective of complementary knowledge between Latin America and Europe is discussed in this context. The individual case-related positive experiences in Latin Ame-rica, and the theoretical conceptual progress in Europe are seen to complement each other in a meaningful way. This vision, of complementary knowledge and advances made possible by the applied geography approach, represents an important result, since climate change and territorial changes in metropolises are developing a growing momentum of their own, which requires local knowledge and institutional actors with the capacity to analyze and manage. What is needed is to identify key actors, barriers to the diffusion of social innovations and proposals to overcome them. In general, a basic objective of "social innovation" should be underlined; the composition of known fields of knowledge in a new context can also lead to important innovations. This paper presents proposals. An illustrative example is that localization policy considerations that do not meet the very classical characteristics of economic valuation, such as proximity to the world market, excellent universities with international reputation, high-tech research, could now be positioned and developed differently. Not economic factors of creative territory, intellectual capital of local governments, local urban knowledge could have a high influence on future policy of localization, if they are properly analyzedItem The Quito Climate Change Adaptation Strategy as a perspective for Governmentality and Social Innovation(2023-10) Gierhake, KlausThe concept of "governmentality" can be used to show the conceptual contradictions in the basic con cepts of the Climate Change Convention, particularly in regard to implementation. These factors likely contribute to the unsatisfactory progress results that are addressed at every COP. The “Local Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change” of the Ecuadorian capital Quito shows how this conceptual design could be successfully improved. Based on such a snapshot, the approach presented in the "Comprehen sive Social Innovation and Modernization of the Metropolitan District of Quito" presents possible sce narios on how or where local knowledge can be better integrated, how processes of social innovation can be triggered by combining existing knowledge, which actors are foreseeably involved in such a pro cess, and where barriers to the implementation of such innovations exist. From this, a notable contribution presents itself, to not stop at the mere introduction of innovative individual projects for mitigation, where the diffusion of such pilot projects as regarded as an automatic given. An adaptation strategy can also be understood as diffusion of a comprehensive social innovation within in a space and its institutional actors, in which catalysts and barriers to such a process are iden tified, then strengthened or overcome. As such, it is an application-oriented use of social science knowledge. In addition, the perspective of complementary knowledge between Latin America and Eu rope is discussed in this context. The individual case-related positive experiences in Latin Ame-rica, and the theoretical conceptual progress in Europe are seen to complement each other in a meaningful way. This vision, of complementary knowledge and advances made possible by the applied geography ap proach, represents an important result, since climate change and territorial changes in metropolises are developing a growing momentum of their own, which requires local knowledge and institutional actors with the capacity to analyze and manage. What is needed is to identify key actors, barriers to the diffu sion of social innovations and proposals to overcome them. In general, a basic objective of "social inno vation" should be underlined; the composition of known fields of knowledge in a new context can also lead to important innovations.