The Scaling Scan

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CIMMYT is supporting the GIZ Green Innovation Centers on all agricultural mechanization related work, this includes technical support but also support on scaling, using the Scaling Scan…

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Now publshed! 3rd edition of the Scaling Scan now available. It was developed to better integrate key considerations for social inclusion (to “leave no one behind”) and for environmental protection (to “do no harm”), and to provide better guidance on using the outputs to develop a scaling strategy, as compared to the previous editions.

Are you interested in knowing how the 3rd edition of the Scaling Scan tool was made? Would you like to know which are the digital Scaling Scan tools available? This webinar officially launched the Digital tools of the Scaling Scan. Click here for more information.

We have a new member in our Scaling Scan team.

Since 2024, Katharina J.F. Schiller has been a GIZ/CIM integrated expert at CIMMYT on scaling up sustainable agricultural innovations, sustainable transitions in agrifood systems and agroecological transitions.

Before joining CIMMYT, Katharina was a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI). Her doctorate, obtained at Wageningen University (Netherlands), focused on the agro-ecological transition in Nicaragua from the point of view of socio-technical transitions in sustainability. She is a board member of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN). Katharina has also worked at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in Nicaragua and Vietnam.

Are you interested in learning about the results of the Scaling Scan in more than 40 innovations around the world?

Our recent publication assesses the opportunities and challenges of using the Scaling Scan tool as a systems thinking tool to address agri-food systems transformation.