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DeSIRA Innovations
DeSIRA projects contribute to strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems – AIS at different levels: innovation niches, innovation support services, and enabling policy and regulatory frameworks.
Managing for Impact - 5 Core Capacities - Training material
DeSIRA-LIFT Service Area 1 is providing support to project teams in 5 core capacities to accelerate and enable contributions to impacts.
Latest Publications
Stories of Change and Briefs 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
How do we support projects?
Discover how DeSIRA-LIFT combines training, coaching and events to supports projects and the broader DeSIRA Community.
Latest News
New online course from the FAO elearning Academy: Agroecology for Africa
Agroecology offers a sustainable approach to transforming agrifood systems by integrating ecological,…
EcoFoodSystems Project Embraces Innovation at DeSIRA Connect Days in Hanoi
For the full blog posted on the webpage of Rikolto, please see…
FAO has published a new guide for strengthening functional capacities in agricultural innovation
The purpose of this guide is to contribute to the development of…
Calls & announcements
Find all recordings and presentations from the Conference “Boosting agrifood research and innovation cooperation for impact at scale”
For all recordings, presentations, photos and updates from the Conference on Boosting…
Launch of the Call for Projects for an Agroecological Transition in West Africa
Following the consultation held last March, the official launch of the Call…
Webinar May 6th, Evaluation for System Change in the Context of Climate and Environmental Crises by EvalforEarth and ALNAP
06 May 2025 | 13:00–14:30 (GMT+1) | Zoom
This upcoming webinar, hosted…