The report synthesises the research conducted under the PRO AKIS project for the topic "Designing, implementing and maintaining agricultural/rural networks to enhance farmers’ ability to innovate in cooperation with other rural actors". It includes a brief description of the five case studies undertook under this research topic, which were: 1) policy‐induced agricultural innovation network in Brandenburg, Germany (‘Adapting seeds to climate change’); 2) the ‘Anti‐Mafia innovation network: from land to fork’ (abbreviated as ‘Anti‐Mafia’), a rural network situated in the Northern part of the Campania region in Southern Italy; 3) the ‘Cluster of Small Fruits’ (CSF), a sectoral and nationwide Portuguese network; 4) a berry pest‐monitoring local network, situated in the Central‐North of Portugal; and 5) the ‘Monitor Farms’ which are farmer‐driven networks set‐up by the Scottish Monitor Programme implemented by the Scottish government with delivery partners including levy bodies such as Quality Meat Scotland.
This report explores the role of rural networks in enhancing innovation processes, questioning the features of the agricultural/rural networks could enhance farmers’ ability to co-innovate in cooperation with other actors. The prospect of this investigation is also to provide interesting and...
Cette publication offre de nombreux exemples concrets détaillant différentes manières de réengager les jeunes dans le secteur agricole. Elle montre à quel point des programmes éducationnels sur mesure peuvent offrir aux jeunes les compétences et la perspicacité nécessaires pour se...
The present case study investigated a policy-induced agricultural innovation network in Brandenburg. It focussed on three major questions: 1) What are features of the network that enhanced farmers’ ability to innovate in cooperation with other actors?; 2) What influencing factors encouraged the farmers’...
In this paper, presented at the 12th European IFSA Symposium (Workshop: "Generating spaces for innovation in agricultural and rural development") in 2016, the authors assess the integration of new entrants to small-scale farming into agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS), in...
This report has the aim of contributing to the PRO AKIS overall goal of exploring and identifying the possibilities, conditions and requirements of rural networks to enhance the farmers’ ability to create, test, implement and evaluate innovation in cooperation with other actors.In...