• Multi-stakeholder platforms provide a co-designing space to align technical and social dimensions of innovation, which are both important in the agri-food sector. (this thesis) • In Multi-Stakeholder Platforms, intermediary outcomes and the processes to achieve them play an important and undervalued role towards agricultural innovation. (this thesis) • The emergence of a more interactive and resource-efficient organizational format for academic conferences could foster knowledge-sharing among researchers. • Researchers can be excellent in doing exactly what they are required to do, however, this does not imply that they are doing anything truly useful for society. • There is a persisting communication gap between academics and practitioners, which a new generation of applied researchers could bridge and build upon. • Zooming out, and thus seeing the whole and putting things into perspective, is important to see the glass half-full instead of half-empty. Propositions belonging to the PhD thesis entitled "The Influence of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms on Farmer Innovation and Rural Development in Emerging Economies: Examples from Uganda".