Socio-Technical Scenarios as a Tool to Improve Farm Advisory Services
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1746-692X.12351" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1746-692X.12351</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12351" target="_blank" >10.1111/1746-692X.12351</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Socio-Technical Scenarios as a Tool to Improve Farm Advisory Services
Original language description
This article examines the use of the socio-technical scenarios (STSc) method to explore the future needs of farmers in the adoption of more sustainable farming practices. It also examines the changes needed for advisory services to meet those identified needs. It presents the results from four STSc workshops organised as part of the H2020 AgriLink project. Workshop participants (farmers, advisors, policymakers, researchers), jointly explored future changes towards more sustainable agricultural systems paying special attention to the role of advisory services in these transitions. Despite the diversity of national contexts, common results emerged concerning both the shortcomings of the current advisory systems and directions for improvement. Participants agreed that advising on single aspects would not achieve the required systemic changes; these would require more integrated advisory systems at different levels (improved cooperation and knowledge flow), supported by more consistent policies. We indeed identified discrepancies between policy expectations and the broader innovation context. Policies should facilitate the role of advisors in supporting farmers to adopt sustainable innovations, but more often they also create barriers for such innovations. Participants’ concrete recommendations for more farmer-centered advisory services illustrate the usefulness of the STSc to explore potential solutions to key problems in contemporary farm advisory systems.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50803 - Information science (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
EuroChoices
ISSN
1478-0917
e-ISSN
1746-692X
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
32-39
UT code for WoS article
000814981400007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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