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Issue30: March-April 2004 | ||||
INTECH hosts workshops for ACP policymakers
UNU Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) and the Netherlands-based Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) have launched a collaborative research and training programme to generate information on Innovation Systems in the Agriculture Sector in six African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The programme will boost implementation
of related policies and programmes in ACP countries and develop local
research capacity to conduct similar studies and to monitor the
development of the Agricultural Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
(ASTIP) systems. It also aims to enhance national and regional science
and technology policy dialogues for agricultural and rural development in
ACP. As part of the programme, CTA is funding a series of
training workshops for researchers from selected ACP countries. The
inaugural workshop, held at INTECH in The course was conducted by UNU-INTECH research staff and addressed various dimensions of national innovation systems and technological capability building, drawing on relevant comparative case studies to illustrate specific research problems likely to be encountered by the ACP research teams. Given the central role of trade in agricultural commodities, within the framework of ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement, the workshop also focused on developments in the World Trade Organisation process and other international trade agreements, highlighting issues of special concern to ACP countries. Each workshop participant presented a country report describing the policy making context and identifying the key actors and agricultural commodities around which the country case studies will be developed. The participants were guided through the methodology for undertaking fieldwork for the national innovation system studies and following the workshop, they will embark on fieldwork that will feed into the national innovation studies. Information on the programme and related CTA initiatives is available on CTA's Knowledge for Development website.
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