Scaling up the TAP Framework: Developing capacities in agricultural innovation systems
Innovation is essential to tackle the complex challenges of agrifood systems, enabling efficient resource use and promoting sustainability. For the past 5 years, the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), a G20 led mechanism, has been empowering communities and fostering agricultural innovation in support of sustainability transitions. Under the leadership of FAO, and with generous financial support from the European Union, TAP aims to identify needs and develop demand-driven, bottom-up solutions through participatory interventions.
Strengthening capacities to innovate is at the heart of TAP. With a coalition of more than 50 Partners from various regions worldwide, TAP has been working to foster mission-oriented Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) for long-term sustainability and rural development in the Global South. AIS actors are equipped with the frameworks, tools, capacities and policies to achieve communities’ collective goals and overcome rural poverty.
To promote these initiatives, we created a video animation where viewers are given a firsthand look at how TAP has, actively, been facilitating multistakeholder policy dialogues, supporting collaboration between local organizations, promoting indigenous knowledge, and strengthening value chains. The video also features our TAPipedia knowledge hub, an information sharing system that provides resources on agricultural innovations and our newly developed e-learning course on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems. Through this new animation, TAP continues to foster learning and knowledge exchange that enhances innovation capacities across the agricultural value chain.
By bridging gaps for vulnerable populations, we can empower small and medium sized farmers who lack adequate support from policies and programmes and promote a shared vision that paves the way for agricultural innovation.
The video is now available on YouTube for viewers to stream with subtitles.
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