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Abstract of plenary sessions: Producing and reproducing farming systems. New modes of organization for sustainable food systems of tomorrow 10
Workshop 1.1 Knowledge flows in pluralistic research and advisory systems: how do advisors keep up-to-date and to what extent is their advice evidence-based? Convenors: Laurens Klerkx and Pierre Labarthe The role of advisory services in bridging science and farmers’ practices seems crucial in a context of diversification of challenges faced by agriculture regarding public goods issues; together with an exponential growth of academic publications related to these various challenges. The risk of an increasing gap between science and advisory practices at field level is often stressed by various stakeholders at both sides. We propose to discuss about how different institutional configurations of Agricultural Knowledge Systems tackle (or not) this challenge in various countries. Beyond fragmentation and disconnect: networks for knowledge sharing in the English land management advisory system Laurens Klerkx and Amy Proctor Wageningen University Laurens.Klerkx@wur.nl The growing multifunctionality in agriculture, combined with privatisation of previously state-funded agricultural extension services, has resulted in a pluralistic land management advisory system. Despite benefits in terms of increased client orientation and greater advisor diversity, it is argued that these changes have resulted in the fragmentation of the land management advisory system and a reduction of interaction within the advisory system and between the advisory system and science. Hence, concerns have been voiced as regards the capacity of the advisory system to be able to incorporate new knowledge and skills to offer adequate advisory services, resulting in a growing interest in how advisors obtain and construct the knowledge and skills necessary for offering adequate advisory services to their clients. In this paper we explore how advisors (land agents, applied ecologists and veterinarians) develop their knowledge and skills by engaging in different kinds of networks. Key findings suggest that advisors draw upon informal ‘communities of practice’ within their own advisory profession, but also draw upon broader ‘networks of practice’ involving multiple advisors from different advisory professions, resulting in knowledge sharing, brokered around the complex queries of clients. Whereas fragmentation and disconnect due to competition and epistemological differences do play a role; they do not appear to prevent overall knowledge sharing among advisors within and across different professions. Assumptions of a collapse of interaction within the land management advisory system are not supported by the evidence. However, to optimize interactions between professions, and between advisors and the science systems, informal or formal brokers in the form of professional associations or other organizations could play a bigger role. Privatization of extension services: which consequences for the quality of the evidence produced for the farmers? Pierre Labarthe, Faïz Gallouj and Catherine Laurent INRA, France Pierre.Labarthe@agroparistech.fr This paper aims at better understanding the consequences of the privatization of extension services on the quality of the knowledge produced for and with the farmers. The originality of the study is that it does not focus on the front-office dimension of the services (the direct interactions between farmers and advisers), but rather on the back-office one (R&D investments in field and experimental trials, scientific watch, training, etc.). In that respect, we combined two analytical frameworks: i) the advances of service economics, which allow to better understand the strategies of private firms of extension services; ii) the debates derived from evidence-based policy approaches in public decision, 11
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