Brokering knowledge exchange between scientists and land stakeholders: collaborative learning for a food secure future at the North Wyke Farm Platform
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Exeter
Department Name: Politics
Abstract
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Organisations
| Description | The KE process was designed to provide a space for farmer-scientist interactions on an issue of high policy importance and the basis for grounding scientific innovations in this area in a practical farming viewpoint. Farmers broadly endorsed the aims and objectives of the Platform and saw it as an opportunity to put debates about the sustainable intensification of agriculture on a firmer scientific footing. The need to find ways of translating this information into enterprise practices that could support profitable as well as environmentally sustainable farming was emphasised. The elaboration and testing of assumptions behind technical approaches to Platform management was an important outcome for the scientists at the Panel meeting because these assumptions were broadly endorsed. However this modest KE process should be seen as primarily legacy driven, It sought to secure the commitment of a panel of regional stakeholders who can now reconvene beyond the lifetime of the grant as treatments and research begin to be implemented. The Panel will therefore provide an important practical input/sounding board/reality check for the scientists, as well as provide insight that can feed in the formal work of the Platform's steering group. The Panel has reconvened and North Wyke Research are committed to supporting this process in the long run. |
| Exploitation Route | The establishment of a Farming Panel from this process will reinforce the practical credibility and application of the Platform's scientific work in the wider agricultural community and we anticipate will also strengthen the possibilities to develop work that links scientific knowledge to economic and social analysis of the farm level impacts of imperatives for food security. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| Description | The key use of the findings of this activity was the formation of the North Wyke Farm Platform Farming Panel which will now be convened periodically to: • offer a practical farming perspective on implications and robustness of emerging science finding from the BBSRC Platform; • develop ways that can promote the Platform work within the wider farming community including industry partners. A related impact of this process is that it has informed the development of the North Wyke Research own "Pathways to Impact" Plan for the BBSRC. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Deliberating imperatives for food security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Platform KE in the context of Food Security Imperatives - Land and Food Security Alliance - "Bridging the Gaps" Seminar, University of Exeter 1st February 2013 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |