Descripción del proyecto
Cultivar el desarrollo sostenible en la agricultura europea
El asesoramiento agrícola desempeña un papel crucial en el apoyo a la innovación y el fomento del desarrollo sostenible de la agricultura. En este contexto, los sistemas de conocimiento e innovación agrícolas (AKIS, por sus siglas en inglés) prestan servicios a los agricultores y facilitan el intercambio de conocimientos. El equipo del proyecto AgriLink, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende potenciar las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad en la agricultura europea analizando y reforzando el papel del asesoramiento a los agricultores en ocho ámbitos de innovación que abordan los retos señalados en el Enfoque Estratégico de la Investigación e Innovación Agrícolas de la Unión Europea. El proyecto se basa en la convicción de que en la evaluación de la prestación de servicios y la adopción de innovaciones deben participar las organizaciones que prestan asesoramiento. En AgriLink se empleará un análisis «micro-AKIS» en veintiséis regiones prioritarias y se fomentará la colaboración entre agricultores, asesores e investigadores a través de laboratorios vivientes.
Objetivo
AgriLink aims to stimulate sustainability transitions in European agriculture through better understanding the roles played by farm advice in farmer decision-making.
To this end, AgriLink will analyse and improve the role of farmer advice in 8 innovation areas that combine challenges identified in the “Strategic Approach to EU Agricultural Research & Innovation”. AgriLink builds on the premise that the full range of advice-providing organisations need to be included in the assessment of service provision and innovation adoption.
The methodology combines theoretical insights with cutting edge research methods within a multi-actor, transdisciplinary approach. It draws on ‘micro-AKIS’ (individuals and organisations from whom farmers seek services and exchange knowledge with) analysis in 26 focus regions, sociotechnical scenario development and ‘living laboratories’ where farmers, advisors and researchers work together. Research in focus regions will provide insight in farmers’ micro-AKIS, advisory suppliers’ business models, and regional farm advisory systems. This will feed an assessment of the efficacy of governance of farm-advice-research interactions across Europe. Newly developed advisory methods and new forms of research-practice interaction will be validated and further developed in Living Laboratories. A socio-technical scenario method will be used to explore, jointly with stakeholders, transition pathways towards more sustainable agriculture.
Crucially, AgriLink builds on insights and experiences from both research and practice. The consortium consists of researchers from different disciplines (institutional economics, innovation studies, AKIS studies, sociology of networks), as well as of advisors (from public, private and farmer-based organisations) from across the EU. Actors from advisory services will be active in the validation and dissemination of results, to ensure that all project findings are both scientifically sound and practically useful.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policies
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.2.4. - Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries and supporting the development of a European bioeconomy
- H2020-EU.3.2.1. - Sustainable agriculture and forestry
- H2020-EU.3.2.2. - Sustainable and competitive agri-food sector for a safe and healthy diet
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-RUR-2016-2
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
75007 Paris
Francia