The Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit provides data-driven, evidence-based solutions to accelerate innovation at scale and advance inclusive and sustainable systems transformation. The unit’s primary focus is on the generation, exchange, and application of science and technology for agriculture, food, and nutrition, with an emphasis on improving both policy and practice that shape decision-making by governments, private enterprises, and civil society in global and local food systems. Topics covered by the unit range from global policy regimes governing genetic innovation in agriculture, to private sector investment strategies in the crop sciences, to the behavioral dimensions of technology adoption choices in farmers’ fields. Applied research is combined with strategic partnerships and capacity development to inform and support key policy, regulatory, and investment choices in partner countries and organizations.

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• ENVIRONMENT AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY (EPTD)