innovation workshop: global best innovative practices in agriculture
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Global Best Innovative Practices in Agriculture
HasanuzzamanPolicy Associate
Access to Information (A2I) Programme
30th November 2013
Outline
Defining innovations
Global best innovative practices in agriculture
State of affairs in Bangladesh
What next
Defining innovations
E-Governance
◦ Bangladesh: an outlier from the global discourse
perspective
SPS NOT BPR
Innovations
Time, Cost, Visit and ultimately Quality
Methodology and objectives
◦ Inform global best innovations in agriculture
◦ UNDESA’s Public Service Awards 2003-11 and 2012
◦ European Commission, World Bank, IFPRI
Global best practices
Global best practices
Global best practices: 2003-11• World Development Report (WDR) 2008: Emphasis on
contract farming and Producers’ Organizations (POs)
• Small-farm production suffers to adopt technological innovations
• Contract farming can overcome this and deliver scale benefits
• Technological change has been a major factor shaping
agriculture in the last 100 years
• A comparison of agricultural production patterns in the
United States 1920 and 1995
• Harvested cropland declined (from 350 to 320 million acres)
• Agricultural labor decreased (from 26 to 2.6 percent),
• People employed in agriculture declined (9.5 million to 3.3
million)
• Yet, agricultural production 3.3 times greater in 1995
than in 1920
Global best practices: 2003-11
Initiative Country
Award Problem Innovation
Information Network Village Project
Republic of Korea
2011 Loss of price competitiveness of major domestic agricultural products resulted in the impoverishment of rural communities
Establishment of INVIL (Information Network Village) creating information network environments and improving the income of residents through e-commerce in agricultural, fishing, and mountain regions usually excluded from information networks.
Participatory Irrigation Management
Thailand 2011 Including water users in the planning, design, operation and maintenance of the water reservoirs
Water service accountable, providing water for irrigation to farmers at affordable levels thus ensuring multi-farming and crop diversification.
Farmers empowered in water management decision-making at every level of any irrigation scheme
Global best practices: 2003-11
Initiative Country
Award
Problem Innovation
Gauteng Integrated Decision Support
South Africa
2011 Integrating all four line functions into Geographical Integration System (GIS) in order to allow full access to key stakeholders.
Lack of compatibility among the line functions of the GIS
ArcExplorer software, the GIS was integrated to enable data to be stored from all of its line functions and to be made widely accessible to internal and external stakeholders
The sub-sectors of environment, conservation and agriculture benefitted greatly from the product
Global best practices: 2003-11Initiative Countr
yAward Problem Innovation
Integrated and Sustainable Development of the Pratigi Environmental Protection Area
Brazil 2010 Pratigi district characterized by deep environmental and socio-economic imbalances, agricultural dependant on the use of primitive, inefficient farming methods
Emphasis on decentralization that led to socio-political and paradigmatic institutional improvements
Opening of educational opportunities paved the way for new economic prospects, by developing new capabilities geared toward agricultural cooperatives, product processing and commercial distribution
Agricultural and aquacultural production processes were conducted with modern technology that used less land to achieve abundant crops
Global best practices: 2012
Initiative Country Problem Innovation
E-Soko (agricultural market information platform)
Rwanda Lack of access to easy access to information on the market price of agricultural products, where over 75% of the population depends on the agricultural business
Designed and developed through the use of ICT to empower farmers to enable them to make effective market decisions, based on the information provided, which covers more than 60 agricultural products in the country’s 41 markets.
Managed on the web and delivered to farmers, agri-business, and the government via mobile phone, which has experienced explosive growth
Information empowers farmers with giving them bargaining power to make better decisions and improve their income by eliminating middlemen who take advantage of a farmer’s lack of market information
Global best practices: 2012
Initiative
Country Problem Innovation
Digital Green
India Small farmers struggling to remain financially and economically viable
Targeted production and dissemination of agricultural information and education
Provides an electronic platform for small and marginal farmers, experts and government/NGO officers to access various agriculture related information
Establishment of an on-line community ensuring targeted agricultural information is disseminated to small and marginal farmers in through the use of ICT tools and videos
Farmers learn about the latest farming information, and share experiences while extension officers can better understand the conditions that the farmers are faced with and determine their immediate needs
State of affairs in Bangladesh
USAID (2013) Bangladesh well-positioned to effectively start
using ICT for agricultural extension
National Agricultural Extension Policy under revision
◦ e-agriculture has been added as one of the nine principles of the
policy
◦ Policy includes PPPs in extension, research-extension-farmer
linkage and one-stop-shop approach with Farmers’ Information and
Advice Centres
Digital Bangladesh: envisages providing each Union Parishad
with facilities that provide internet access to the population to
improve linkage to information and government services
e-Tathyakosh (infokosh) and pipilica
Katalyst case studies
Problem: Identify and examine through group discussions
Solution: Find possible ways of dealing with the problem
Implementation: Effective on-the-ground
A2I: Advisory, financial and policy support
What next
