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Among them, 84 were female, 115 were male and 3 were not defined. Our results imply that farmers are most likely receptive to organic pest management information at times when they develop an information need (e.g. From our findings, we developed recommendations for improving the targeting and interlinking of policy instruments, and on the need for academics and policy-makers to pay more attention to the important role of value chain co-innovation in the AKIS. developments in institutional frameworks, public and private roles and partnerships, With reference to the classification of Lamprinopolou et al. what has been achieved (to date) compared to what was initially intended) (Table 4). When funding and other resources are limited, there is a tendency for programmes to pick the low-hanging fruit and it is the farmers who are already well connected to EU networks that are likely to benefit most from the EIP-AGRI, quite possibly on multiple occasions, while the mass of users will not be engaged at all. A number of farmers in the district have adopted improved farming methods according to the Ministry of Finance and Planning (2002). Conversely, information on organic strategies was provided through external sources (e.g. By contrast, the high incidence (57.1 per cent) of food safety/product quality among the non-project activities without funding hints that the participants may be expecting product development to yield an early return on investment. agricultural stakeholder approach analysis systems development Secondly, a one telephone call semi-structured interview was held with a key informant, involving questions related to the partnership, cooperation within it, its performance and outcomes, and a short self-evaluation. application/pdf Registered in England & Wales No. In this paper, we describe how the EIP-AGRI and a range of other EU-supported and non-EU (formal and informal) co-innovation activities are sharing the space in the AKIS. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. Their analysis included a clustering exercise that firstly required the development of sets of categories that were sufficiently representative for each OG to be associated with them. These two groups are however somewhat less dominant as regards coordinating H2020 TNs. For some actors and some purposes, alternative routes to co-innovation may be more appropriate. We do not advocate the creation of yet more project databases to complement those that already exist. However, the clumsy use of specialist terminology will discourage potentially interested partners and thus create division between those which are capable of being involved in such projects and those which are not. In this way, new concepts, processes, techniques and materials could be developed and flow in the economy with positive social welfare effects. 24 0 obj Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine. Figure 5. The subjects consisted of 82 American students and 82 Korean students. To promote safer pest management, information about organic and integrated pest management should be made continuously available in farmers lives. Her research interests include information and knowledge management, information and communication technologies, information behavior, and the role of libraries and information centers in combating social exclusion. LIAISON research has indicated that interactive innovation is an example of a term that is not well understood by AKIS actors. More attention should be paid to the role of value chain co-innovation in the AKIS. (2016) observed that only several thousand farms, i.e. new technologies and value chain innovations) and the types of participating actors. <> Europeanisation of Rural Policies in Hungary and Poland, Innovation Behaviour among Smallholders: Evidence from the Peach Value Chain in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Paper presented at the conference on international research on food security, natural resource management and rural development, Co-innovation of Family Farm Systems: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Agriculture, A Sustainable Approach to Fostering Agricultural Knowledge Sharing in Conflict-Affected Areas of Eastern Ukraine, The Folly of European Union Policy Transfer: Why the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Does Not Fit Central and Eastern Europe, Defining Peer-to-Peer Learning from an Old Art of Practice to a New Mode of Forest Owner Extension, Book Review: Five Editions (19622003) of Everett Rogerss Diffusion of Innovations, How Do We Enact Co-innovation with Stakeholders in Agricultural Research Projects? 3 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the Common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation (EU) No. A standard data gathering template was used for all reviews, and the results were collated into a single database for analysis. It will receive a welcome increase in funding in the 20212027 EU programming period but only a few farms will ever directly participate in EIP-AGRI activities (Fotheringham et al. This should include the more effective targeting of programmes at groups of actors, especially users, that are currently not sufficiently engaged with them. Register a free Taylor & Francis Online account today to boost your research and gain these benefits: Competence for Rural Innovation and Transformation, Sharing the space in the agricultural knowledge and innovation system: multi-actor innovation partnerships with farmers and foresters in Europe, a NAIK-Agrrgaztasgi Kutatintzet, Budapest, Hungary, b Vlaams Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek, Merelbeke, Belgium, Zum heutigen Stand der adoption-Forschung in den Vereinigten Staaten, Orchestrating Regional Development Through Projects: The Innovation Paradox in Rural Finland, The Realm of Freedom in New Rural Governance: Micropolitics of Democracy in Sweden, Catching Up with the West? Aubrac (1977) perceived a cause and effect relationship between the slow development of this sector and a lack of information. <>stream The full details of the methodology1 are described in Munyua and Stilwell (2010). Drawing upon self-perception theory and the technology acceptance model (TAM), a research model is developed and tested using questionnaires and, partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modeling (SEM). For these reasons it was regarded as a suitable location for the study. For example, following evaluation of a concept note, co-innovation partnerships could perhaps be awarded a small pump-priming grant with no financial or other reporting obligations, apart from the need to prepare one or two EIP-AGRI Practice Abstracts or equivalent outputs at the end of the co-innovation process. 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Administrative demands associated with the projectification of innovation support can lead to the consistent exclusion of some groups (Andersson 2009; Arora-Jonsson 2017). H2020 RIAs had on average the largest consortia with almost 80 per cent of the reviewed projects having 21 partners or more. transfers, and the responsiveness of AKS to broader policy objectives. 41 0 obj Kujala, Virkkala, and Lhdesmki 2020) must, therefore, recognise that a multiplicity of approaches share the space in the AKIS. Synergies can be improved concerning support for the development of co-innovation partnerships. their safety, A rainbow revolution and participatory plant breeding, A Farmer's experience with biotech crops in South Africa, Latin America: Public agricultural advisory services, The Brazilian Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) System, Facilitating adoption and technology transfers, Summary of some key issues raised and implications for the policy agenda in OECD countries. Research carried out in 2011 in Kirinyaga district, Kenya, shows how sense-making theory and methodology can be used to assess the use of local agricultural and external knowledge by small-scale farmers and its effects on small-scale agriculture. The reviewed OGs also have a broad focus, although almost 50 per cent of them cover resource management (R) and almost 50 per cent deal with socio-economic sustainability (S) (several OGs may cover both topics, of course). endobj Similar challenges may continue to be encountered with the implementation of the EIP-AGRI. Secondly, the cultural and organisational backgrounds of the survey participants could potentially influence the way certain concepts have been translated and interpreted. practitioners or users1) in co-innovation partnerships, it has two conceptual shortcomings. 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Results show that most farmers in Kirinyaga use external agricultural information in their farming practices. Percentage of each type of project and non-project activity by coordinator. She holds a B.Sc. (2017) observed that farmers tend to be most influenced by proof of successful farming methods by their peers, so-called peer-to-peer learning. Key: M: marketing; N: organisational; O: other; P: process; S: social; T: product. The reviewed partnerships are diverse in terms of challenges addressed, solutions proposed and types of innovation supported. Kirinyaga has a high population density and faces many social and economic challenges. All types of AKIS actors participate in all forms of partnerships, and high levels of individual farmer and/or farmers organisation representation can occur in both EIP-AGRI projects and non-EIP-AGRI partnerships. This equates in the EU SCAR (2012) visual depiction of the AKIS (see 9) to knowledge sharing between farmers and the (mainly public sector) education and research institutes, and advisory services, a reflection of the persistent linear approach to innovation described above. Our data suggest that many of these are effective methods of supporting co-innovation and are, therefore, sharing the space within the AKIS. Public bodies (G) take part in 75 per cent of reviewed Interreg projects and are represented in around two-thirds of projects funded from national and/or regional public sources. In Table 3, an additional column (F/S) has been inserted to show the percentage of each type of project containing at least one representative from the two groups. The concept was operationalised into policy mainly by the Standing Committee of Agricultural Research (SCAR) Strategic Working Group (SWG) on AKIS (EU SCAR 2012 and subsequent publications) in consultation with the European Commissions (EC) Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI). We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems This study explores the moderating effect of tie (perceived similarity) on the transfer of ease of use (amount of effort required to use library resources) and usefulness (the degree to which using library resources would improve performance) from print resources to electronic resources, with the view in mind of facilitating the effective use of online electronic resources in Chinese university libraries. NGOs), and was not available at times when farmers developed an information need. She has wide experience working with research and development institutions, including the Ministry of Agriculture in Kenya, the World Agroforestry Centre, CAB International Africa Regional Centre, Knowledge Trends Ltd., and the African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources on agricultural information, communication and knowledge management in Africa.