Demand-led Research/Bridging the Gap in Agricultural Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) Systems in Kenya's Floriculture. Overall Programme ObjectiveThe overall objective of the project was to build capacity of ATPS and other stakeholders in Kenya to conduct demand-led agricultural research and improve the interface between researchers, farmers, policy makers and other actors in the ASTI system.Most African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are currently unable to provide adequate food for the populace and are uncompetitive in national and global markets. Nowhere is this difficulty more evident than in agricultural production. Although agriculture underpins economic development and improvements in productivity and is expected to facilitate the orderly transition of labour markets and also fund development in the industrial and non-agricultural sectors, it remains under resourced.Concern with the current low levels of living and intense poverty in many countries as reflected in the Human Development Index has led the international development community to re-consider the approaches to science and technology (S&T) policy formulation and its role in development. Policies and programmes in many of the international development institutions have begun to change.With this background, the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) collaborated with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) to help fashion an adequate response to this renaissance. The goal of the project was to strengthen the interface between and among researchers, farmers, policy makers and other actors in the Agricultural Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) system leading to improved information and knowledge flows to facilitate innovation.
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