Agricultural Innovation Systems: An Investment Sourcebook

Agricultural Innovation Systems - ISBN: 9780821386842

Extension and advisory services are integral to the AIS, where now more than ever they play a brokering role, linking key actors such as producer organizations, research services, and higher education. This module looks at the history and current status of extension and advisory services and examines important topics such as pluralism, new roles for extension, new kinds of service providers, IC...

Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems in Transition

Icts as Enablers of Agricultural Innovation Systems

Topic Note 6.1: ICT in the Agricultural Research Process. This section spans the entire agricultural research process from engaging partners and stakeholders, through data collection and analysis, collaboration and knowledge access, publishing and dissemination, to feedback and interactions with rural and other end-user communities. In each of these areas, ICTs are making agricultural research ...

Innovation Capacity in Agricultural Sector

The changing context for agricultural development has highlighted a strong need to understand and adoptinnovation systems thinking. Science, technology and innovation policy has equated rural development toagricultural development. The main objective of this paper was to examine the role of innovation capacity inagricultural sector. With the growing diversification of rural livelihood options i...

Evaluating natural language systems: a sourcebook approach

This paper reports progress in development of evaluation methodologies for natural language systems. Without a common classification of the problems in natural language understanding authors have no way to specify clearly what their systems do, potential users have no way to compare different systems and researchers have no way to judge the advantages or disadvantages of different approaches to...