Session: Symposium--Scaling-up Research for Enhancing Smallholder Farmer Productivity

Division: ASA Section: Global Agronomy

Title: Symposium--Scaling-up Research for Enhancing Smallholder Farmer Productivity

Lead Community Sponsor: Gaining Access to Agronomic Inputs Community
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Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: agronomic inputs, market access, seed systems and smallholder farmers

Session Description: As Vermeulen and Campbell (2015) point out, science is often one among many influences on policy and action and is "not given privilege on account of being more 'objective' or 'factual'". Yet as agricultural scientists working with agronomy, crops and soils, we put great stock in research and objective, science-based decision making and expect others to use our findings.  The objective of this symposium is to explore opportunities for reducing the time from innovation to impact with smallholders.