Hi Keith fully agree with your highlighted point. so VC team need strengthen in program countries. Also agree about the need for feed back mechanism from VC team to science team to enable scientific research serving business needs to create development. for us in Egypt the main problem is how to bring policy maker on the table with other important player across the chains .
Keith, thanks for the presentation. We all acknowledge the importance of engaging with the private sector more. But there needs to be incentives to drive private sector engagement. The private sector can be engaged in projects that produce short-term results and products that are appealing to the end users. Most of our work aims at research that addresses the needs of smallholder farmers who in most cases have poor market access. In addition, the results from these interventions are long-term and generate public goods. Therefore getting commitment from private sector becomes a challenges.
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Hi Keith
fully agree with your highlighted point.
so VC team need strengthen in program countries.
Also agree about the need for feed back mechanism from VC team to science team to enable scientific research serving business needs to create development.
for us in Egypt the main problem is how to bring policy maker on the table with other important player across the chains .
I like the point on communication bw flagships and VC as emphasized before from within the CRP...
Keith, thanks for the presentation. We all acknowledge the importance of engaging with the private sector more. But there needs to be incentives to drive private sector engagement. The private sector can be engaged in projects that produce short-term results and products that are appealing to the end users. Most of our work aims at research that addresses the needs of smallholder farmers who in most cases have poor market access. In addition, the results from these interventions are long-term and generate public goods. Therefore getting commitment from private sector becomes a challenges.