@article{Gupta:283561,
      recid = {283561},
      author = {Gupta, Anil and Shinde, Chintan and Dey, Anamika and  Patel, Ramesh and Patel, Chetan and Kumar, Vipin and Patel,  Mahesh},
      title = {Honey Bee Network in Africa: Co-creating a Grassroots  Innovation Ecosystem in Africa},
      address = {2019-02-11},
      number = {1547-2019-295},
      series = {ZEF Working Paper Series No. 178},
      pages = {40},
      month = {Feb},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee  Network’s decentralized model for collecting, verifying and  disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap  for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings  together governmental and non‐governmental institutions,  members of academia, scholars and a large number of  volunteers. Through the Network’s activities,  locally-designed solutions and traditional knowledge with  the potential to be refined and scaled up are scouted and  members of the Network work with the innovators to help  their ideas reach their commercial or non‐commercial  potential. The Network has been involved in the sharing of  grassroots technology developed in India with Kenya,  notably a food processing machine, seed sowing device, and  a small tractor. Through these pilot programs, actors at  the grassroots had a chance to collaborate and co‐design  solutions adapted to the Kenyan context. This experience  revealed a willingness in Kenya to further invest in  grassroots innovation initiatives, and Network members  identified many conditions that would make Kenya the right  choice for an African network hub, such as a rich  traditional knowledge system and institutional willingness  and recognition of the dynamism of the informal sector.  Lessons from the Network’s experience in Kenya and its  technology transfer program are collected and turned into  recommendations for the development of a sister Network in  Africa.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/283561},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.283561},
}