Designing, implementing and maintaining agricultural/rural networks to enhance farmers’ ability to innovate in cooperation with other rural actors

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.