Five lessons for avoiding failure when scaling in conservation

T Pienkowski, A Jagadish, W Battista… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Many attempts to scale conservation actions have failed to deliver their intended benefits,
caused unintended harm or later been abandoned, hampering efforts to bend the curve on …

[HTML][HTML] Science of Scaling: Understanding and guiding the scaling of innovation for societal outcomes

M Schut, C Leeuwis, G Thiele - Agricultural Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract This Editorial to the Special Issue “Science of Scaling: connecting the pathways of
agricultural research and development for improved food, income and nutrition security” …

Progress toward impact at scale of orange‐fleshed sweetpotato in Ghana

PE Abidin, IK Dorgbetor, K Adofo, K Acheremu… - Crop …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) was known as a minor root crop in Ghana. Starting in
2010, the International Potato Center (CIP) and multiple partners implemented orange …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling practices within agricultural innovation platforms: Between pushing and pulling

E Totin, B van Mierlo, L Klerkx - Agricultural systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Growing empirical evidence suggests that innovation platforms can be effective in
enhancing agricultural research impact by creating an enabling environment for scaling of …

ASIRPAReal-Time in the making or how to empower researchers to steer research towards desired societal goals

M Matt, DKR Robinson, PB Joly, R Van Dis… - Research …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The promise that research and innovation (R&I) will contribute to societally desired changes
poses a difficult analytical and evaluative challenge. The aim of this article is to present a …

Scaling strategies and mechanisms in small and medium enterprises in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review

E Begimkulov, D Darr - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The question of how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the agri-food sector
successfully develop and grow their business is a matter of high practical and theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] Research and development challenges in scaling innovation: a case study of the LEAP-Agri RAMSES II project

J Seghieri, J Brouwers, JE Bidou, V Ingram, I Droy… - Agroforestry …, 2021 - Springer
A widely held assumption is that intensifying agroforestry will lead to sustainable increases
in production, societal resilience and food security, urgently needed in the current context of …

Farmer-centered and structural perspectives on innovation and scaling: a study on sustainable agriculture and nutrition in East Africa

T Pircher, M Nertinger, L Goss, T Hilger… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose We studied innovation processes in agriculture and nutrition to discuss a scaling
approach that encompasses the technical, institutional, and behavioral dimensions of …

Toward a common ontology of scaling up in development

AN Frake, JP Messina - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Scaling up development measures to target global food insecurity has a distinctly spatial
character and is often cited as a solution to the global hunger crisis. Development does not …