TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATIONS WITH POTENTIALa
COORDINATION AND GOVERNANCE
China
Biotechnology, precision farming, urban agriculture, e-services, food safety, traceability, sustainable agriculture practices, food loss and waste, e-commerce
• Strengthen inclusive coordination for AIS • Improve strategic AIS leadership and mechanisms for province to state level coordination • Consistent use of M&E for policy and priority setting
• Increase spending and cross-cutting R&D on emerging issues • Limit public R&D on developmental research to enable private sector investment • Further enable PPP, also by foreign firms • Strengthen decentralization and coverage of extension; greater focus on sustainable practices and business support • Enable brokers to support innovation processes
Indonesia
Varietal development, CSA, biotechnology, precision farming, e-services, food safety and traceability
• Strengthen use of M&E for policy and priority setting • Support visionaries and platforms for inclusive innovation
• Increase R&D spending and reduce • Improve ICT skills in rural commodity focus to allow areas multidisciplinary R&D • Enhance industry-higher • Increase incentives for co-innovation education collaboration to • Improve quality of extension at the address shortage of skills decentralized level, including with • Implement vocational training e-extension reform
• Consider endorsing UPOV • Enforce IPR • Improve transport and ICT infrastructure • Address land tenure and rural finance • Increase incentives for FDI
Malaysia
Precision and urban • Consistently use M&E for farming, biotechnology, policy and priority setting nutrition, food safety and • Support visionaries and traceability, food loss and platforms or brokers for waste inclusive innovation in agriculture
• Maintain or increase spending and • Strengthen capacity for targeted allocation (less commoditycross-disciplinary focused) collaboration • Further enable co-innovation • Enhance industry-researchamong public and private actors higher education • Improve extension coverage collaboration for greater capacity and to address shortage of skills
• Consider endorsing UPOV • Reform land tenure that impedes investment by farms and firms
Philippines
CSA, e-services, biotechnology, food safety, precision farming
• Continue increasing R&D spending and efficiency • Provide incentives for co-innovation through innovation funds and PPPs • Increase budget and content (sustainable practices) of extension and e-extension services
• Consider endorsing UPOV • Improve IPR enforcement • Improve transport and ICT infrastructure • Improve land tenure and rural finance options
COUNTRY OR SECTOR
• Improve coordination and fragmented governance of AIS • Integrate M&E • Support visionaries and platforms for inclusive innovation
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND INCENTIVES FOR PRIVATE SECTOR AND PARTNERSHIPS
INNOVATION SKILLS
ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
• Strengthen capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration • Improve ICT skills in rural areas
• Enforce IPR, biosafety, and environmental governance • Improve ICT connectivity • Create an ecosystem for venture capital; greater flexibility with FDI rules
• Improve ICT skills in rural areas • Enhance industry-higher education collaboration to address shortage of skills • Implement vocational training reform
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TABLE 7.1 Summary of the transformative innovations with high potential for country readiness and the agricultural innovation systems policy areas warranting attention in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam
