4.5 Approaches in Supporting Agricultural Innovation
Supporting approaches of agricultural
innovation has changed over time. The National Agricultural Research Systems
(NARS) were the dominant approach before 1990. In the 1990s, the Agricultural
Knowledge and Information System (AKIS) become prominent concept while
recently; the concept of Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) is dominating
literatures gaining preference in terms of strengthening the broad spectrum of
involvement of multiple actors in science and technology development and
dissemination of innovations.
In the following sections we will be
discussing the similarity, differences, purpose, actors, strengths and
limitations of the three approaches to supporting agricultural innovations.
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