Institutionalizing multi-actors agricultural innovation platforms (MAIPs) to foster field-level agricultural innovation systems by empowering smallholder farmers.
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The multi-actor agricultural innovation platforms (MAIPs) are co-innovation platforms established in rural communities where farmers and key value chain actors become empowered through participatory action research (PAR), knowledge co-creation and application, market linkages, policy engagement, and so on.
These platforms effectively amalgamate knowledge and insights from researchers alongside the practical experience of farmers. MAIPs, aiming to meet the practical needs of farming communities, are conducive to building a collaborative relationship among multiple actors to activate their potential for co-innovation and develop integrated solutions.
The effectiveness of MAIPs are increasingly acknowledged, and thus their scale-up is now on the agenda. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an effective approach to institutionalizing them as integral agencies to contribute to agrifood system transformation towards sustainability.
