A model to promote sustainable social change based on the scaling up of a high-impact technical innovation
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2018-12
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Sustainability
Abstract
This paper reports on an intervention model that incorporates common elements, from the literature, of scaling up, and includes novel such as linking technological and social innovations, with an exit strategy to build sustainable processes and results. The model is based on a trans-disciplinary approach, and leadership, that involves local communities and stakeholders to establish synergies, to give coherence to the whole process, and to build an exit strategy involving territorial dynamics related to the innovation. The model includes a clear definition of the objects, and the process, that should be transformed, and
the specific methodologies to involve local communities and stakeholders, to reach the final target user. The model was applied to develop the project, More Nutritious Potatoes, for scaling up new yellow potatoes varieties with improved agronomic and nutritional attributes.
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This study belongs to the More Nutritious Potatoes Project in Colombia, financed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global Affairs Canada (GAC) through the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF).
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Journal Article (peer-reviewed)
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SCALING UP, SOCIAL INNOVATIONS, POTATO DECLARED SEED SYSTEM, RURAL ENTREPRENEURS NUCLEI, FAMILY FARMING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION, COLOMBIA
Citation
Cuéllar-Gálvez, David et al., A model to promote sustainable social change based on the sacliung up of a high-impact technical innovation,Sustainability, 2018, 10, 10, 4532, 1-21 p.