Announcing the winners of a first round of funding to take agricultural innovations to scale in Africa

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeDiversification in East and Southern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.creator.identifierSusan MacMillan: 0000-0002-3010-4498en_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/announcing-the-winners-of-a-first-round-of-funding-to-take-agricultural-innovations-to-scale-in-africa/en_US
cg.placeMontpellier, Franceen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.ilriCLIMATE CHANGEen_US
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SYSTEMSen_US
cg.subject.ilriSCALINGen_US
cg.subject.ilriVALUE CHAINSen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
dc.contributor.authorMacMillan, Susanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T17:31:25Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-29T17:31:25Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/172431en_US
dc.titleAnnouncing the winners of a first round of funding to take agricultural innovations to scale in Africaen_US
dcterms.abstractA ‘Scaling Fund’ was launched late last year by the CGIAR Regional Research Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa, an initiative known also by its Shona-Swahili name, ‘Ukama Ustawi’ (denoting ‘partnership’ and ‘well-being’). This initiative supports climate-resilient agriculture and livelihoods in a dozen countries in East and Southern Africa. It helps millions of smallholders to intensify and diversify their maize-based farming while reducing their risks. It does this by improving extension services and governance frameworks, supporting small and medium enterprises, and adopting a gender and social inclusion lens. This initiative’s Scaling Fund was established specifically to help the region’s farmers to mitigate, and adapt to, climate change. Following a rigorous evaluation process by a committee composed of Ukama Ustawi staff and external scaling experts, 3 applications out of total of 28 submissions from within CGIAR were selected for taking agricultural innovations in this region to scale. The Scaling Fund enables high-impact CGIAR innovations to reach broader markets, serve more customers, and drive impactful change. The concepts underlying the Scaling Fund were developed and tested under previous CGIAR programs, including the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Banana (2017–2020). The Fund helps early-stage innovators to think through and effectively plan their ‘last-mile’ efforts to reach as many people as possible, removing discernible bottlenecks to adoption of innovations and exploring new opportunities.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMacMillan, Susan. 2024. Announcing the winners of a first round of funding to take agricultural innovations to scale in Africa. Blog post. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization. https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/announcing-the-winners-of-a-first-round-of-funding-to-take-agricultural-innovations-to-scale-in-africa/en_US
dcterms.issued2024-02-28en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherCGIAR System Organizationen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.subjectfarmersen_US
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectscaling upen_US
dcterms.subjectvalue chainsen_US
dcterms.typeBlog Posten_US

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