SHIP2019 Innovation request form

One of the main objectives of the SHIP platform is to set up a dialogue platform and a pilot action to develop smallholder and family farm support mechanism model to be used in V4SEE and other relevant geographic regions facing similar challenges by the creation of:
- network of data collection from the field - advisers, extensionists, field day demonstration experts, on farm researchers,
- network of innovation producers - researchers, scientists, private companies,
- method to collect, evaluate and publish data from both the practitioner (smallholder) and the provider side.

The main purpose is to collect and classify smallholder and family farms’ problems by typology, create and track each issue on the information system (platform), experts matching, pairing, connecting innovations with problems for solutions, the results channeling back to the end users and also storing in the advisory knowledge base.