A supportive and enabling environment is essential for agricultural innovation. Enabling environments include both formal and informal elements:
- Formal elements include public policies, governance structures, regulatory frameworks, investment programs, and other formal aspects of the policy environment.
- Informal elements include the social, cultural, and economic norms, rules, and practices that influence how innovation actors, networks, and systems function.

Tool: FSP’s Kaleidoscope model for analyzing the drivers of policy change
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IFPRI descriptor:
Countries/Regions:multi-stakeholder partnerships; innovation platforms; facilitation
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IFPRI descriptor:
Countries/Regions:policy; policy process; food security; policy making