The pathway
A pathway is only useful if it reaches a decision.
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Listen
Gather direct experience from farmers and rural communities.
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Document
Turn that experience into clear, verifiable material.
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Convene
Bring communities, technical practitioners, and local decision-makers into the same room.
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Translate
Reframe local priorities into language useful for public decision-making.
- 5
Commit
Secure concrete commitments from the relevant institutions.
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Follow through
Check whether those commitments are kept.
- 7
Learn
Document what worked and what didn't.
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Replicate
Adapt the mechanism to other contexts.
We're testing a specific hypothesis: can a deliberately designed community-to-decision pathway produce real institutional follow-through? We don't know yet. That's why we're piloting it.