Rural innovation systems and networks: findings from a study of Ethiopian smallholders

By D. Spielman, K. Davis, M. Negash, G. Ayele. 2011

364 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Business and International Management

1. L. Klerkx
2. C. Leeuwis
3. M. Schut
4. J. Esparcia
5. K. Davis

In Economics and Econometrics

1. L. Klerkx
2. C. Leeuwis
3. J. Esparcia
4. Kasper Kok
5. M. Schut
6. K. Davis
7. B. Swanson

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. L. Klerkx
2. M. Schut
3. C. Leeuwis
4. F. Hermans
5. J. Esparcia
6. Peter S. Carberry
7. H. Jochemsen
8. Kasper Kok

Citations in the corpus

• Innovation and networks in rural areas. An analysis from European innovative projects (2014, background): “…relations of knowledge, actors, networks and innovation systems, related to some specific issues such as local food (Tovey, 2009) and agro-food networks (Goodman, 2004), in different contexts such as rural areas in developed (Doloreux et al., 2007) and developing countries (Spielman et al., 2011).”
• The distribution of roles and functions for upscaling and outscaling innovations in agricultural innovation systems (2013, background): “The network perspective has been a relatively new addition to the study of (agricultural) innovation systems (Spielman et al., 2010) and even though the network of connected actors is an important variable that helps to explain the (failure) of particular innovation systems (Klein Woolthuis et al.,…”
• In-depth assessment of the public agricultural extension system of Ethiopia and recommendations for improvement (2010, background): “It is thus important to improve training systems by strengthening the innovative capabilities of organizations and professionals; changing organizational cultures, behaviors, and incentives; and building innovation networks and linkages (Davis et al. 2007; Spielman, Davis, et al. 2008).”
• An analysis of power dynamics within innovation platforms for natural resource management (2014, background): “However, an investigation of Ethiopian rural innovation systems and networks conducted by Spielman et al. (2010) also found that government extension and administration exert a strong influence over smallholder networks, crowding out market-based and civil society actors thereby limiting innovation…”
• Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review (2016, background): “…in farmers' behaviour in relation to, for example, the adoption of more sustainable practices (Pannell et al. 2006) and increasingly looks at how configurations of social networks influence adoption behaviour (Aguilar-Gallegos et al. 2015; Hoang et al. 2006; Spielman et al. 2011; Thuo et al. 2014).”
• Information networks that generate economic value: a study on clusters of adopters of new or improved technologies and practices among oil palm growers in Mexico. (2015, methodology): “Also, it appears that while the AIM provides complimentary services, it could more actively overcome homophily and act as a central catalyst of multi-actor networks, in line with work that underscores the need to foster such heterogeneous networks in innovation systems (Compagnone and Hellec, 2015; ”
• Taking Complexity in Food Systems Seriously: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (2014, background): “, traders, business owners, brokers) have knowledge and experience to identify organizational, technical, and institutional opportunities and constraints more rapidly than extra-local actors (Brooks & Loevinsohn, 2011; Klerkx, Hall, & Leeuwis, 2009; Spielman et al., 2011).”