Enabling rural innovation in Africa: an approach for empowering smallholder farmers to access market opportunities for improved livelihoods

SK Kaaria, Pascal C. Sanginga, Jemimah Njuki, Robert J. Delve, Colletah Chitsike, Rupert Best · 2007

Summary. This paper presents the Enabling Rural Innovation approach, which helps smallholder farmers in Africa access market opportunities and build entrepreneurial capacity. The method combines participatory market research, farmer-led research, natural resource management, social capital building, and gender equity to link resource-poor farmers to domestic, regional, and international markets. The authors share lessons and impact findings from testing this approach across eastern and southern Africa.

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  title   = {Enabling rural innovation in Africa: an approach for empowering smallholder farmers to access market opportunities for improved livelihoods},
  author  = {SK Kaaria and Pascal C. Sanginga and Jemimah Njuki and Robert J. Delve and Colletah Chitsike and Rupert Best},
  year    = {2007},
  url     = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.536.6329}
}

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Countries

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Regions

Africa

Categories

entrepreneurship, food-systems, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28