Working together: reflections on building 'knowledge partnerships' between researchers, farmers and advisors
| Autor: | Carolyn Kaboré, Sean Kenny |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association. :243-247 |
| ISSN: | 1179-4577 0369-3902 |
| DOI: | 10.33584/jnzg.2006.68.2608 |
| Popis: | In agricultural research, development and extension (RD&E) the importance of building partnerships between technology collaborators (e.g. farmers, researchers, extension, industry) is widely accepted. The FutureDairy project has formalised relationships and interactions between farmers, researchers and advisors to 'co-develop' knowledge and technologies that address key industry challenges. Separate industry partnerships have been established to study opportunities in forages, feeding and labour saving innovations. Reflections on these partnerships, and their performance to date, suggests there may be benefit in knowledge partners having a better understanding of expectations for the partnership. Also highlighted is the way in which a technology codevelopment approach, though suited to developing guidelines for managing new technologies, may not be suited to systems questions. Issues that require multiple technologies and knowledge types to be addressed appear, from our experience, to require a different form of partnership than those used for developing new technologies. Without an understanding of these principles, RD&E organisations may still fail to deliver on industry expectations even while they are encouraging greater industry participation. Keywords: knowledge partnerships, co-development, feeding systems, complementary forage rotations, multidisciplinarity, partner farms, farming systems research project. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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