Agrotech Innovations Ltd (AGTIV) aims at disseminating and extroverting to the highest percentage possible of the results and new knowledge that is created by its activities to the broader relevant audience with the organization of relevant seminars and workshops.

Awareness and exchange of knowledge

All activities contributing to knowledge awareness, dissemination of scientific knowledge or technical information for actors, hybridization of knowledge. For instance, providing knowledge based on information dissemination forums (website, leaflets), meetings or demonstrations and exchange visits.

Advisory, consultancy and backstopping

Advisory, consultancy and backstopping-targeted supportive activities aimed at solving complex issues such as a new farming system or new value chain design. The provision of advice (technical, legal, economic, environmental, social etc.) during the innovation process based on demands of actors and the co-construction of solutions all fall in this category.

Demand articulation

This especially involves services targeted to help actors to express clear demands to other actors (research, service providers, etc.). This is targeted support to enhance the innovator’s ability to express his/her needs to other relevant actors.

Networks, facilitation, and brokerage

Provision of services to help organize or strengthen networks; improve the relationships between actors and to align services to be able to complement each other (the right service at the right time and place). It also includes all activities aimed at strengthening collaborative and collective action.

Capacity building

Provision of services aimed at increasing innovation actors’ capacities at the individual, collective and/or organizational level. The services may comprise the provision of classical training and of experiential learning processes.

Enhancing / Supporting access to resources

Provision of services for innovators aimed at enhancing the acquisition of resources to support the process. This could be facilitating access to inputs (seeds, fertilizers etc.), facilities and equipment (technological platforms, labs etc.), and funding (credit, subsidies, grants, loans, etc.).

Institutional Support for niche innovation and scaling mechanisms stimulation

Provision of institutional support for niche innovation (incubators, experimental infrastructures, etc.) and for scaling out and scaling up the innovation process. This refers to support for the design and enforcement of norms, rules, funding mechanisms, taxes, subsidies, etc. that facilitate the innovation process or the diffusion of innovation.