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Item Defying "the pervasive bias" against African smallholders: Identifying entry points for institutional change [Défier le « biais omniprésent » à l'encontre des petits cultivateurs africains: Identifier les points d'entrée pour les changements institutionnels](Development in Practice, 2013-10) Adjei-Nsiah, S.; Adu-Acheampong, R.; Debrah, K.; Dembele, F.; Lassine, S.; Ouologuem, B.; Saidu, A.; Vissoh, P.; Zannou, E.African smallholders face few opportunities that can be captured through new technologies alone. Analysis of the institutional context in which they work opens new pathways for innovation. This article synthesises nine studies that attempted such analysis. Using mixed appraisal methods, the studies identify institutional conditions that explain the, often unsatisfactory, outcomes of smallholders, as well as entry points for changing them. Instead of at the farm or community levels, Participatory Innovation System Analysis seeks at higher levels to identify actors, networks and mechanisms that maintain or can change the "pervasive bias against the small farm sector" in SSA. © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.Item Looking at agricultural innovation platforms through an innovation champion lens: An analysis of three cases in West Africa(Outlook on Agriculture, 2013-09) Klerkx, L.; Adjei-Nsiah, S.; Adu-Acheampong, R.; Saïdou, A.; Zannou, E.; Soumano, L.; Sakyi-Dawson, O.; van Paassen, A.; Nederlof, S.The concept of an innovation platform is increasingly used in interventions inspired by agricultural innovation systems thinking, as a way of bringing stakeholders from a sector together to enable transformative change. An essential role on such innovation platforms is thought to be that of the 'innovation champion', but this role has so far not been unravelled. In this paper, by applying insights from management science to analyse three innovation platforms in West Africa from the Convergence of Sciences - Strengthening Innovation Systems programme (CoS-SIS), different types of innovation champions are mapped. The authors conclude that making a distinction among different types of innovation champions can be useful in identifying members for innovation platforms, but that the specifics of agricultural innovation appear not to be adequately captured by roles attributed to existing categories of innovation champions. Further research is needed to ascertain whether other categories exist, and how different innovation champions interact over time on agricultural innovation platforms.