1. INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAIN COLLABORATION
INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAIN COLLABORATION
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INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAIN COLLABORATION
Inclusive value chain collaboration 3rd learning platform Kade, 12 July 2017

2. Learning platform Share and validate research findings
Exchange and co-create knowledge
Enhance joint learning
Share innovative solutions to common problems

3. Learning platform 2016 - Kade

4. Last year: Brokering for innovation
Role of change makers – live interviews (Miss Abena, Mr Swanzy, Mr Kofi Kingley, Mr Koomson)
Change maker =
Someone who brings new ideas that impact on the lives of other people
Someone who is “Doing things differently” – processing, buying, saving groups, research
Kakraa shared results of research on policies
Anna shared results of research on innovations through a gender lens

5. This year: Changes landscapes: challenges & innovations
Why looking beyond the farm?
Also benefits from the wider landscape (water, snails, pestles)
The landscape is changing (more cash crops, growing settlements, deforestation, galamsey)
Changes for the better & changes for the worse
How does it impact farmers?
How do farmers cope with changes?

6. Today’s programme
Kwabena’s research on landscape change in the Eastern Region  Farmers’ perceptions & responses?
Christian’s research on agroecological practices
Andrea’s research on innovations-from-below
Live interviews with change makers
Panel discussion with institutional actors
Discussion on how to move forward with the LP
Take home messages and recommendations

7. Programme - Third annual platform meeting: ‘Changing landscapes: challenges and innovations
Time
Agenda
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:00
Introductions and Welcome
Getting to know each other and expectation
Looking back at Learning platform 2016
Introduction to the theme: bringing in the landscape perspective
10:00 – 10:45
Landscape Change
10: :15
Acroecological practices
11:15 – 12:45
Farmers’ responses to changes in the landscape
BREAK
1:30 – 3.45
Landscape innovations in practice
Interview change makers
Panel discussion with institutional actors
Discussion: knowledge sharing beyond the project
3:45 - 4:00
Take away messages
Closing remarks & lunch
Programme ’
Thursday 6 July (8:30 to 16 hrs) Assembly Hall, Tepa
8:30 – 9:00 hrs: Registration
9:00 – 9:05 hrs: Words of welcome - Prof. Daniel Obeng Ofori, on behalf of the consortium
9:05 – 9:30 hrs: Getting to know each other – Dr. Mercy Derkyi (UENR)
Part 1. Presentations – Facilitator: Dr. Mercy Derkyi (UENR)
Introduction to the programme and focus of this learning platform - Dr. Mirjam Ros-Tonen (UvA)
Presentation by Kwabena Asubonteng (UvA) regarding landscape change
Sharing and discussing maps on the shifting cocoa belt by Selasse Gidiglo (AgroEco – Louis Bolk Institute (AE-LBI) 
Results of research on community perceptions of landscape change in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions - Andrea Vos (KIT) and Samuel Asiedu (UENR)
Coffee break and snacks
Part 2. Landscape innovations in practice – Facilitators: Dr. Anna Laven (KIT) and Martha Ataa-Asantewaa
(UENR)
Live interviews with change makers
Panel discussion with institutional actors
Discussion: knowledge sharing beyond the project
Closing remarks - Dr. Mirjam Ros-Tonen and Prof. Daniel Obeng Ofori
Lunch
16:00 hrs End of the programme