Wrap-up

• All these activities should be about process – but still debate about how narrow/broad the focus should be on particular content
• Climate change/environmental sustainability – needs to be there, but shouldn’t drive the agenda – how do changes in climate affect the way we think about innovation systems? What are the factors – environmental and other – that affect them?
• Off the shelf technologies – not just about getting them into farmers’ hands – must address governance and policy issues – examining the social and political trajectories that technologies travel will inform these debates
• Particular projects and their focus:

1. a broader approach to livestock would be useful, but focus on pastoral issues makes most sense
2. would hope this would provide a platform for interacting with CG, reg’l research orgs, NARS, NGO networks, etc.

• Need a more elaborate process to develop broader strategy for FAC work in STI à develop fuller proposal for Consortium to review
• Innovation systems perspective has been there for some time – big challenge of programmes like Research Into Use and CG Challenge Programmes is operationalisation and developing and sustaining ‘stakeholder innovation platforms’ – many unanswered questions à CIMMYT struggling with this too
• Role of gov’t – Ministries of S&T struggling with developing innovation output indicators to demonstrate impacts. MSTs weak in coordination and resource mobilisation
• Regulation key issue – PPPs – incentive structure for interaction very weak, incoherence in the system à whole governance structure needs to be examined in this area