Communication – Stories and briefs

The first book on Stories of Change: Activating Agricultural Transitions to Sustainability through Participatory Research and Co-Innovation across Africa Latin America and Asia is now out!

Please see this page for more information and to read the book!

DeSIRA projects are complex research and innovation projects and as such they ambition to generate several changes at different levels of the agricultural innovation systems in countries. In some cases, they are focused on innovation niches and experimental research work, but in other cases, they deploy multi-level and multi-dimensional activities to generate systemic changes.

The DeSIRA projects are multi-partner in nature. They experiment and put into practice multiple partnership patterns between researchers and other innovation actors, in highly diverse contexts, and while facing very complex problems.

Stories of change (SoC) are a powerful tool to illustrate and document significant changes that are triggered by DeSIRA projects, in terms of behaviors, attitudes, knowledge, and practices, which often need to be more easily captured using quantitative metrics. SoC aim at identifying not only the changes that have occurred but also the reasons and the processes leading to these changes at various levels where projects intervene.

The SoC will help to capture the diversity of changes that were put in place to make research work for innovation, toward impacts in an era of complexity, emergency, and uncertainties.

Courses were provided to  DeSIRA projects from October to November 2023 to reinforce their ability to produce communication and knowledge pieces on their achievements and the implementation process taht produced them.

These were followed; early 2024, by coaching sessions for candidates to the production of Stories of Change.

For the recordings and presentations of the sessions on ´Communicating Research´ in English and French please click below.