Participants in the training course on setting up innovation platforms

43 people, including 13 women, from agricultural research and advisory support services (ITRA and ICAT), members of inter-professional organizations, agricultural training centres, universities and NGOs took part in this training of trainers, with a view to acquiring techniques and approaches for setting up an innovation platform.

Innovation platforms are places where people can learn, share knowledge and experience, help each other, and incubate technologies and innovations. They are also places where people can find out about research products, the needs of potential users and the difficulties and constraints faced by the various segments of the value chain, so that they can work together to find ways of overcoming these constraints.

This training course, facilitated by CORAF and organized in Kpalimé in the Plateaux-West region, helped to build the capacities of innovation platform specialist-animators who will be recognized as champions for the establishment and facilitation of innovation platforms in the FSRP’s intervention zones. The aim is to contribute to the large-scale adoption of technologies and innovations capable of transforming agriculture in these areas.