Link Innovation Studies

LINK seeks to stimulate debate and share lessons on rural innovation policy and practice through research and advisory services

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Benchmarking

Anatomy of the Debate

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Global Knowledge Economy

Four Horsemen of the Global Economic System

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ATMA

The universal application of the T&V model of agricultural extension in more than 50 countries is one of agricultural development’s best known failures. The approach worked well in places where it was originally developed, but proved inappropriate almost everywhere else. In the September edition of the LINK News Bulletin, Rasheed Sulaiman V. and Andy Hall worry that an apparently successful extension innovation piloted in India is set to suffer a similar fate.

The Fallacy of Universal Solutions in Extension

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Benchmarking

The recently-concluded International Food Policy Research Institute conference, �Advancing Agriculture in Developing Countries through Knowledge and Innovation�,

To Measure or to Learn? Why are we afraid of Benchmarking for learning?

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Development Assistance

To coincide with the high level forum on aid effectiveness in Accra in the first week of September, the August issue of the LINK News Bulletin focused on science and technology and development assistance.

New Global Alliances: The End of Development Assistance

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Innovation Systems

The debates about science, technology and innovation (ST&I) in rural development have seen something of a renaissance in recent years, with a number of new and existing organisations in the field of agriculture looking at the adoption of innovation as an organising principle for both policy and action.