Who needs to be engaged? And why? Catalytic Institutions Provide an entry point for discussions Technical assistants Help producers understand why? How? And what results expected? Organizers and representatives of producers (e.g. cooperatives, associations) Organize and influence producers Companies up the supply chain Provide extension services, economic incentives for producers to work across landscape Government agencies Provide extension services, economic incentives and legal requirements that requires collective actions across landscape Educators Stimulate involvement of youth and linkages between urban and rural
How? The process Recognize the different scales of landscapes and different contexts in different regions: Identify issues and incentives (entry points) for people to want to work beyond their farms and make collective decision-making: e.g. Water Identify who are the key players and different roles Identify who and what are missing? And who can be the champion/catalytic institutions? (Including how to finance those missing links) Be opportunistic; learn from doing Amarvi: state-level