The synthesis report on Farmer Access to Innovation Resources: Findings and lessons learnt on facilitating Local Innovation Support Funds has now been published by Prolinnova. It describes the process and results of the action research in eight countries in Africa and Asia to answer the following central questions:
- Can the LISF be an effective farmer-led funding mechanism?
- Is the LISF a cost-efficient funding mechanism?
- What could be sustainable institutional arrangements with farmer co-management?
It also brings the main results of the participatory impact assessment and draws lessons for scaling up this approach to changing the power balance in decision-making about decentralised agricultural research and development. Further information about piloting LISFs can be found here.
