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Insights from the Responsible Innovations team on sustainable agriculture practices, global nutrition, gender equity, responsible scaling, development financing, and more.
Beyond Proof of Concept: What Market Insights Reveal About Scaling DryCard Across Africa
Every year, millions of smallholder farmers lose valuable harvests because crops are stored before they are dry enough. The result is reduced quality, post-harvest losses, and increased risks of mold and aflatoxin contamination, problems that threaten food security,...
Why Inclusive Innovation Design Matters More Than Ever
Why Inclusive Innovation Design Matters More Than Ever One of the most common mistakes organizations make when designing innovations is assuming that inclusion can be addressed later. Too often, teams build products, technologies, interventions, or services in...
Beyond Yield: Building Cross-Disciplinary Food Systems for Nutrition Security
Paper commentary: Agricultural and environmental drivers of variation in the composition of food crops: A scoping review (doi:10.1002/ppp3.70197) For decades, agricultural success has largely been evaluated based on one key metric: yield. How many calories can we...
Beyond Technical Fixes: The Role of Systems Thinking in Agri-Food Systems
Many trends in research and practice tend to emerge in multiple places at once, often before there is a shared understanding of what they are or why they matter. Systems thinking is no exception. It is increasingly recognized as a valuable approach for making sense of...
Why Ghana Needs to Put More Colour on Its Plate
By Dr. Naalamle Amissah WAHIH – West Africa Horticulture Innovation Hub | Department of Crop Science, University of Ghana Walk through any market in Ghana - Makola, Kejetia, Kumasi Central, and you will find colour in abundance, tomatoes catching the morning light,...
Where Does Your Garden Egg Really Come From? The Hidden Struggles of Ghana’s Indigenous Food Farmers
By Asem, Amissah, Kolog, Hodey & Amissah | University of Ghana Walk through any market in Ghana – Madina, Kumasi Central, Tamale, or Cape Coast – and you will see baskets piled high with garden eggs, okra, turkey berries, and roselle leaves. These foods are...
From Principles to Practice: Advancing Responsible Innovation in Food Systems
On March 24th, 2026, Responsible Innovations convened a dynamic and thought-provoking webinar titled “Responsible Innovation in AR4D: From Principles to Practice in Food Systems.” The session brought together researchers, practitioners, and development professionals...
The Money Moved. Did Your Firm?
There is a kind of institutional faith that development organizations have carried inside them like a stone in the chest, heavy and warm and mistaken for permanence. The faith that the money will come, as it has always come, from the familiar places, through the...
Rethinking Processed Foods: Can They Be Leveraged to Improve Diet Quality?
Processed foods are typically considered a primary driver of rising overweight, obesity, and chronic diseases. In particular, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) - industrial food formulations that are high in salt, sugar, and additives - have been increasingly linked to...