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Overview

Cees Leeuwis is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on innovations and development within food systems and rural areas.

The main field of study encompasses the broader Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with subfields including:

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Plant Science
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Business and International Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

Key topics explored in their work cover:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Leeuwis has contributed to various scientific publications, many appearing in the following venues:

  • Agricultural Systems
  • The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Development Research
  • Sustainability

Among recent notable papers are:

  • How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes, 2021, Food Security
  • Scaling Readiness: Science and practice of an approach to enhance impact of research for development, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • Science of Scaling: Understanding and guiding the scaling of innovation for societal outcomes, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • Why (not) participate in citizen science? Motivational factors and barriers to participate in a citizen science program for malaria control in Rwanda, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Are farmers ready to use phone-based digital tools for agronomic advice? Ex-ante user readiness assessment using the case of Rwandan banana farmers, 2021, The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

Their book publication includes:

  • Scaling readiness: Concepts, practices, and implementation, published by International Potato Center eBooks, 2020

Cees Leeuwis collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Laurens Klerkx
  • Rico Lie
  • Marc Schut
  • Annemarie van Paassen
  • Francesco Cecchi

Best Publications

  • Communication for Rural Innovation: Rethinking Agricultural Extension

    Cees Leeuwis

  • Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

    Laurens Klerkx;Noelle Aarts;Noelle Aarts;Cees Leeuwis

  • Evolution of systems approaches to agricultural innovation: concepts, analysis and interventions

    Laurens Klerkx;Barbara van Mierlo;Cees Leeuwis

  • Establishment and embedding of innovation brokers at different innovation system levels: Insights from the Dutch agricultural sector

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Communication for Rural Innovation

    Cees Leeuwis;Ann Van den Ban

  • Rethinking Communication in Innovation Processes: Creating Space for Change in Complex Systems

    Cees Leeuwis;Noelle Aarts

  • Reconceptualizing Participation for Sustainable Rural Development: Towards a Negotiation Approach

    Cees Leeuwis

  • Matching demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure: Experiences with innovation intermediaries

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?

    Laurens Klerkx;Andrew Hall;Cees Leeuwis

  • Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme

    Catherine W. Kilelu;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa

    Dominique Hounkonnou;Dansou Kossou;Thomas W. Kuyper;Cees Leeuwis

  • Balancing multiple interests: embedding innovation intermediation in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

    Seerp Wigboldus;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis;Marc Schut;Marc Schut

  • New roles of science in society: Different repertoires of knowledge brokering

    Esther Turnhout;Marian Stuiver;Judith Klostermann;Bette Harms

  • Normative contestation in transitions ‘in the making’: Animal welfare concerns and system innovation in pig husbandry

    Boelie Elzen;Frank W. Geels;Cees Leeuwis;Barbara van Mierlo

  • Innovation platforms: experiences with their institutional embedding in agricultural research for development

    Marc Schut;Laurens Klerkx;Murat Sartas;Dieuwke Lamers

  • Wheelbarrows full of frogs: social learning in rural resource management : international research and reflections

    C. Leeuwis;R. Pyburn;N.G. Röling

  • Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science?

    Ken E. Giller;Cees Leeuwis;Jens A. Andersson;Wim Andriesse

  • Explaining mastitis incidence in Dutch dairy farming: The influence of farmers’ attitudes and behaviour

    J. Jansen;B.H.P. van den Borne;R.J. Renes;G. van Schaik

  • Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

    Catherine W. Kilelu;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis;Andy Hall

  • Wheelbarrows full of frogs : social learning in rural resource management

    Cees Leeuwis;Rhiannon Pyburn

  • Learning towards system innovation: Evaluating a systemic instrument

    B. van Mierlo;C. Leeuwis;R. Smits;R.J.A. Klein Woolthuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurens Klerkx
Laurens Klerkx Wageningen University & Research
Paul C. Struik
Paul C. Struik Wageningen University & Research
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research
M.K. van Ittersum
M.K. van Ittersum Wageningen University & Research
W. van der Werf
W. van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Willem Takken
Willem Takken Wageningen University & Research
H. van Keulen
H. van Keulen Wageningen University & Research
Art Dewulf
Art Dewulf Wageningen University & Research
Teun Bousema
Teun Bousema Radboud University

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