Local experimentation
Practices, learning and context
Research, policy and implementation
Our work and experiences
Assignments, collaborations and research that connect ideas with the conditions needed for change.
In focus · Scaling
Scaling means changing
more than the practice.
How do local innovations connect with wider changes in markets, infrastructure, research and policy?
Our research on two decades of millet-related work in Odisha examines how these changes interact—and why their sequence and timing matter.
Networks and intermediation
Relationships, resources and coordination
Wider system change
Markets, institutions and policy
Research, policy and implementation
More work and research
A connected collection of assignments, collaborations and research informing our practice, including work undertaken by our founder in previous roles.
WorldFish
What does it take for an innovation to take hold?
Understanding the conditions for renewable-energy innovations to become workable options in aquaculture.
EgyptCSIRO · RACE2030
How do networks contribute to transformation?
Examining how networks support change across food, energy and transport—and how their contributions can be assessed.
Cross-sector researchResearch across six CGIAR cases
When projects meet the unexpected.
Understanding what works, what does not and why outcomes diverge from plans under uncertainty.
Africa and AsiaResearch with CSIRO and AgResearch
How can research organisations respond to new demands?
Exploring how mandates, capabilities and organisational arrangements shape the contribution research can make.
Institutional analysisGlobal Food Security · 2025
Who needs to work together?
A systematic review of 40 cases across 24 countries examines how different actors contribute to transformation. It shifts attention from fixed actor categories to the functions, relationships and coordination needed for change.
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to food-system transformationOne Earth · 2025
Transformation for whom?
An interrogative framework brings questions of justice into how transformation is understood and pursued, across past, present and future. It offers a starting point for further application and testing.
Questions of justice in transformationStart a conversation
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