To achieve impact and bring research results to scale, our research community will engage with multiple ‘scale agents’ (change agents) to feed our scientific knowledge into change processes. To do this, we have to:

Identify needs of scale agents

• Recommendation domains, empirical evidences and data
• Integrated analysis and decision support tools

Pick-up innovative cropping and farming systems (see outputs from group 3) and develop innovative support mechanisms

• Farm visits, demonstration sites, field days, farmers field schools, contest related to innovations
• Monetize innovative practices, boost creativity in intervention mechanisms

Identify and activate incentive mechanisms for different stakeholders (money, price premium, reelection, etc.)

• Making agroecology practices more attractive
• Bridging knowledge (scientific and local), reviving traditional agroecology practices

Mobilize multiple stakeholder groups (govt organizations, farmers’ organizations, service providers, community enterprises, etc.)

• Mechanisms of discussion: common language, serious games, etc.
• Exploring scenarios, projections into the future as a basis for discussion
• Collaborative platforms: virtual (ITC, phone apps), field activities, information sharing, knowledge hub, service provision through existing networks

Setup funding mechanisms

• Ecocertification schemes, service provision, payment for environmental services, etc.
• Price premium on AE products and/or other outcome-based reward systems
• Insurance networks, microfinance, banks, local government subsidies, etc.

Formation and training through partnerships with higher education system