Scale Up Sourcebook

Scaling up innovations and solutions in agriculture was discussed in the September 2018 conference, Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions, organized by Purdue University, in partnership with the African Development Bank.

The Scale Up Sourcebook is a collection of contributions at the said conference and also aims to capture methodologies for leveraging globally the technology and innovations designed to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods in the developing world.

The publication distils the expertise, ground-breaking innovations, and examples of successful scale on display at the conference, will surely serve as a valuable guide for those driven by the imperative to revolutionize African agriculture.

It is intended as an easy-to-use guidebook targeted to a broad and diverse audience of stakeholders associated with scaling agricultural technologies and innovations to meet the needs of the world’s poor.

The Sourcebook has following chapters:

1. designing with scale in mind;
2. assessing scalability;
3. using commercial markets to drive scaling;
4. financing the transition to scale;
5. creating an enabling environment for scale;
6. tailoring metrics, monitoring, and evaluation to support sustainable outcomes at scale;
7. and the critical role of intermediary and donor organizations.

Also summarized in the Sourcebook are many of the growing array of on-the-ground cases, donor practices, and analytic tools that can help to inform future efforts to scale agricultural interventions and outcomes.