A4I is delighted to be working with the Overseas Development Institute, Firetail, and the Glasshouse Partnership on a new project ‘Leaping and Learning: Strategies for Taking Agricultural Successes to Scale.

Leaping and Learning: Strategies for Taking Agricultural Successes to Scale

Agriculture for Impact is delighted to be working with the Overseas Development Institute, Firetail, and the Glasshouse Partnership on a new project ‘Leaping and Learning: Strategies for Taking Agricultural Successes to Scale’ funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK’s Department for International Development.

The aim of the programme is to provide development partners with access to independent, evidence-based recommendations that set out practical policy options and approaches for scaling up smallholder agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure food and nutrition security and poverty reduction.

Our approach

A key challenge for agricultural development is how to link small-scale, family farmers to providers of financial services, inputs, technical advice and marketing; thereby allowing smallholders to innovate, invest and enjoy better livelihoods. Many government agencies, non-governmental organisations, or private firms are working to facilitate such links. But there is much to learn.  This programme is reviewing such experiences, to distil good practice.  

The project will run until June 2013. For more information please contact Liz Wilson, Agriculture for Impact, at e.wilson@imperial.ac.uk