The question
Millets and food-system innovation
Local experimentation alone does not explain how an innovation becomes more widely established. Wider institutional and market conditions shape what can spread, and whether it can endure.
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation · Odisha, India
Scaling means changing more than the practice.
Tracing how local work on millets connected with wider changes in infrastructure, research, markets and public policy.
The work
Research traces two decades of millet-related work in Odisha, examining interactions across local activity, networks and intermediation, and wider system change. It considers how processing infrastructure, research partnerships, narratives and policy connected over time.
Experience informing Metamorphosis, including research and assignments undertaken by its founder in previous roles.
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