Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable development.

نویسندگان

  • Patti Kristjanson
  • Robin S Reid
  • Nancy Dickson
  • William C Clark
  • Dannie Romney
  • Ranjitha Puskur
  • Susan Macmillan
  • Delia Grace
چکیده

We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance. We found that these projects closed gaps between knowledge and action by combining different kinds of knowledge, learning, and boundary spanning approaches; by providing all partners with the same opportunities; and by building the capacity of all partners to innovate and communicate.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 106 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009