This research was undertaken for the Sustainable Resilient Farming Systems Intensification (SRFSI) project.
The
diagnosis of the agricultural innovation systems (AIS) in the 8 pilot
districts revealed the presence of a wide range of actors who can
potentially support outscaling (horizontal spread of new knowledge being
applied) and upscaling (institutional and policy changes that create a
favourable environment for rapid uptake of new knowledge) of SRFSI. The
success of SRFSI in promoting application of new knowledge around
Conservation Agriculture (CA) and Sustainable Intensification (SI)
depends crucially in developing partnerships and bringing about synergy
among the activities of these different agencies. SRFSI interventions
should build on some of the interesting initiatives around CA and SI
promoted by various programmes or agencies. Promoting CA and SI involves
calibration of several technical options appropriate to the different
situations (soil water conditions, size of farms, types of crops grown
etc, etc). Lack of well articulated policy on promotion of conservation
agriculture and sustainable intensification is currently constraining
wider update of these technologies.
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