More than 40 people from 16 different countries, including researchers, advisers and those involved in innovation support for a more sustainable agriculture, attended ENDURE's European workshop on co-innovation.
Co-organised with MTT of Finland and entitled 'Co-innovation management and networks to facilitate change', the event gave participants the opportunity to learn from 16 case studies, to share experiences and to learn more about co-innovation and the kinds of roles and skills needed to successfully develop more sustainable agricultural systems through multi-actor partnerships, particularly within the context of Integrated Pest Management.
The case studies were grouped into four themes: multi-stakeholder and coordinated action, linking cases and the system context, the role of advisers, and participatory approaches to co-innovation. The presentations are available in the table below.
As well as providing insights into co-innovation and participatory approaches, the workshop provided participants with the opportunity to reflect on the questions, challenges and learning points they face in their working lives as they seek to develop participatory, co-innovation approaches in agriculture. The fruits of this reflection can be seen in the 'harvest wall' pictured right.
Co-organiser Frank Wijnands, from Wageningen University, explained that for the organisers an innovation cannot be considered as an innovation unless it is put into practice. Achieving this demands blends of expertise and experience and often involves learning on the job as co-innovation is not taught directly in schools.
“After World War Two, every actor in the agricultural system was aligned to improve agricultural productivity,” he said. “Now we have multiple objectives and lots of public goods involved. We usually need input from many stakeholders, so co-innovation is more pertinent than it was 20 or 30 years ago. A very important topic is the participatory approach and we are looking to those who are facilitating or managing this process.”
He suggested the three key factors were connecting stakeholders, the framing or reframing or questions and solutions and converging action, which can be understood clearly through the use of the co-innovation circle (see right, click to enlarge).
He explained that the organisers of the event were genuinely motivated to create a platform for co-innovation and at the end of an intensive day and a half of exchanges, participants were unanimous in their desire for future events of this kind.
Both the workshop and November's co-innovation seminar are contributing to the European Innovation Partnership on 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability' to advance the implementation of Integrated Pest Management in agriculture and horticulture in the European Union.
Download the presentations:
Case study title | Presenter | Download the pdf |
Group l: Multi-stakeholder and coordinated action | ||
Multi-stakeholder design to change water quality at catchment level | Raymond Reau, INRA, France |
Raymond Reau [pdf - 1,26 MB]
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Multi-stakeholder management in the Farming with Future project | Frank Wijnands, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands | |
From common problems to coordinated action in organic wine production | Cristina Micheloni, AIAB, Italy |
Cristina Micheloni [pdf - 423,92 kB]
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Experiences with Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture | Delphine Neumeister, SOLINSA project, Institut de l'Elevage, France |
Delphine Neumeister [pdf - 1,38 MB]
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Group ll: Linking cases and system context | ||
Learning about whole farm sustainability on the basis of indicators | Hilde Wustenberghs, ILVO, Belgium |
Hilde Wustenberghs [pdf - 2,69 MB]
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Learning and knowledge production with Change Laboratory for IPM in horticulture | Irene Vänninen, MTT, Finland |
Irene Vänninen [pdf - 2,60 MB]
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Reflexive Monitoring in Action for a sustainable dairy chain | Anne-Charlotte Hoes, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands |
Hoes - Reflexive Monitoring in Action [pdf - 664,76 kB]
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Agro-PEPS, a wiki-like information system for sharing experience and knowledge on cropping systems | Laurence Guichard, INRA, France |
Laurence Guichard [pdf - 2,90 MB]
Agro-PEPS Overview [pdf - 57,70 kB]
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Group lll: Role of advisers | ||
New knowledge and skills required of advisers | Philippe Blondeau, New Advisers project, Chambre d'Agriculture Poitou-Charentes, France |
Philippe Blondeau [pdf - 829,84 kB]
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Demonstration farms on integrated plant protection in Germany | Vivian Vilich, Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, Germany |
Vivian Vilich [pdf - 1,82 MB]
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Ex-ante evaluation of cropping systems for co-design with farmers | Damien Craheix, INRA, France |
Damien Craheix [pdf - 2,60 MB]
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Experience groups in Danish advisory services | Jens Erik Jensen, VFL, Denmark |
Jens Erik Jensen [pdf - 2,64 MB]
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Group lV: Participatory approaches | ||
STEPHY Guide, a tool for co-designing low-pesticide input cropping systems | Marie-Sophie Petit, Chambre d'Agriculture Bourgogne, France |
Marie-Sophie Petit [pdf - 1,85 MB]
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Participatory action research on crop protection with organic apple growers | Weronika Swiergiel, SLU, Sweden |
Weronika Swiergiel [pdf - 1,36 MB]
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The necessity and difficulty to involve stakeholders in developing and implementing IPM solutions (cases from Switzerland) | Robert Baur, Agroscope, Switzerland |
Robert Baur [pdf - 1,07 MB]
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Experiences in co-innovation from the PURE project | Pieter de Wolf, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands |
Pieter de Wolf [pdf - 247,12 kB]
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