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Research data: INNOVATION
2022 Data drives strategic dialogue around innovation in agriculture
South Africa's first survey on innovation in agriculture found diverse patterns of innovation activity across the sector. At a recent HSRC p...
Download this report2022 Innovation networking in aspirational subnational innovative regions: exploring experiences from Frances Baard municipality, South Africa
How underdeveloped localities or subnational regions build the capabilities to realise and spread the benefits of innovation is a longstandi...
2021 Farmer-led institutional innovations in managing smallholder irrigation schemes in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa
Farmer-led institutional innovations have been touted as the key to improving the management of water resources in irrigation schemes. Howev...
2021 Social network interviewing as an emancipatory southern methodological innovation
This essay offers an example of a new methodology developed by Southern scholars in the Global South that takes seriously the aim of emancip...