SATNET Asia

The project focused on the dissemination of technologies and facilitation of market access for poor farmers. Its objective was to increase and accelerate the rate of adoption of sustainable and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies and to improve regional trade in food products. Specifically, the project aimed at supporting innovation by strengthening South–South dialogue and intraregional learning on sustainable agriculture technologies and trade facilitation.

As the only European partner in this project, FSC was responsible to establish an analytical framework for the systematic assessment of the sustainability and productivity enhancing potential of technology options. FSC collected technology options from various sources including research findings and best practices from already implemented and positively assessed technologies in and beyond the region. Based on a pre-selected shortlist of technologies, FSC coordinated studies on understanding success factors and adoption pathways, and develop the final portfolio of sustainable technologies. The research findings are publicly available online through an open-access ‘technology bank’ that will contain fact sheets on each technology. Findings also contributed to the preparation of extension manuals on the identified best practice technologies.

The network was open to include any interested organization or person that works in the areas of research, advocacy and capacity building for agriculture and food trade. The project’s target groups were the various agents along domestic and regional value chains who play a role as change agents and innovators, amongst them farmer organisations, traders, the private sector, the public sector and policymakers. For, and together with, these target groups, the action aimed at creating a knowledge environment focused on poverty reduction and conducive to continuous and sustainable innovation.

Five partners were joining their strength to implement the project. In addition, more than 20 institutions in target countries were invited to participate in the project, and the network was open to include additional organizations that work in the area of research, advocacy and capacity building for agriculture and food trade. more