Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking

Sutherland, Lee‐Ann; Ādamsone-Fiskoviča, Anda; Elzen, Boelie; Koutsouris, Alex; Laurent, Catherine; Stræte, Egil Petter; Labarthe, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.11.005

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“…Social dynamics and prevailing cultures within AKISs form contexts that may inhibit-as in the two examined cases-or stimulate the dynamic capabilities of a system. Historicity, referring to paths of innovation development in a region or context [65], as well as traditionally adopted roles and relations between actors [87], can also play a negative or positive role in supporting AKISs' capacity to facilitate digital transformation. Since our analysis did not focus on this dimension of AKISs, future research can investigate how previous innovation experiences shape current attempts of AKISs to facilitate digitalization.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Greece, AKIS actors operate without central coordination since the public sector's contribution to the system is limited [63], while cooperation among them is not the norm [64]. In that framework, the ability of the AKIS to support agricultural innovation is limited [65]. The Italian AKIS is more decentralized and pluralistic, involving different categories of actors [64] and adequately supporting facets of innovation [66] but lacking robust mechanisms that support continuous value creation for farmers [67].…”

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Do Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems Have the Dynamic Capabilities to Guide the Digital Transition of Short Food Supply Chains?

Charatsari,

Michailidis,

Francescone

et al. 2023

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The digitalization of agriculture generates a new environment for the actors involved in agrifood production. In such a context, Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKISs) face the challenge of reconsidering their operational paradigms, redefining priorities, and designing strategies to achieve new aims. To do so, the actors participating in AKISs should develop and exploit a set of competencies known as dynamic capabilities, including the aptitude to sense the change in the external environment, the capacity to seize the opportunities that this change creates, and an ability to transform and adapt themselves to the new conditions that digitalization generates. In this study, using as examples the AKISs operating in Greece and Italy, we aimed to uncover if and how actors participating in these systems attempt and manage to deploy such capabilities. Based on a qualitative approach and drawing on data from two workshops, we discovered that seizing the opportunities sensed is a challenging task for AKIS actors. Our results also indicate that knowledge is a pivotal resource for AKISs, allowing actors to enhance their transformative capacity. However, to create a “collective” knowledge base, AKISs should ensure a functional connection between stakeholders and strengthen the roles of actors not actively engaged with the system, like public advisory organizations, universities, and technology providers.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Do Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems Have the Dynamic Capabilities to Guide the Digital Transition of Short Food Supply Chains?

Charatsari,

Michailidis,

Francescone

et al. 2023

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“…Lawrence et al [9] proposed the concept of a Forestry Knowledge and Innovation System (FOKIS) to better fit the forestry context. Klerkx and Begemann [10] developed the concept of a Missionoriented Agricultural Innovation System (MAIS), and Sutherland et al [14] proposed the use of a Micro-AKIS to capture the knowledge and innovation systems at the farm level. The adaptation that this study proposes, which is to integrate a "policy transition" aspect into the AKIS framework, arises from the need to improve the ET ecosystems in the AFF sectors that are not able to innovate a sustainable transition of these sectors and do not reflect their needs.…”

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“…Education, as a cross-cutting theme, is often involved in the AKIS literature [11,[14][15][16]] but is rarely the main focus of research [17]. Moreover, even less emphasis is placed on vocational education and training (VET) and lifelong learning (LLL).…”

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Improving the Education and Training Policies of the Agri-Food and Forestry Sectors: Identifying New Strategies to Meet the Needs of the Sector and Farm-to-Fork Priorities

Kurtsal,

Rinaldi,

Savini

et al. 2024

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The current European agri-food and forestry (AFF) systems are perceived to be moving too slowly towards more sustainable agriculture, forestry, food and bio-based value chains. The European Green Deal and Farm to Fork (FtF) Strategy stress the importance of the sustainable transition of food systems that emphasize resilience and justice along food chains. In this direction, education and training (ET) are given a major role, constituting one of the pillars of the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) framework. This study aims to propose an extended version of the AKIS framework to focus on the transition of policies concerning the ET pillar and to use this framework as a conceptual background with which to identify strategies for the improvement of ET policies in the AFF sectors. Data collection was undertaken through a round of workshops, and the data were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. The results revealed that the need for a high-quality educational policy and the need to enhance collaboration, entrepreneurship and innovative learning methods were among the most important for the sector, where urgent changes in pace and an approach in ET are necessary for the entire value chain, from farm to fork. These results emphasize that pivoting the transition of ET systems toward achieving the Green Deal, FtF and new CAP objectives requires the development of policies that support student-centered and interdisciplinary education, while also being flexible and supported by non-formal and lifelong learning approaches.

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“…Within the AKIS framework, a multitude of participatory and group-based agri-advisory service strategies have emerged globally (Black, 2000). However, even within this framework, it is recognised that, in AKIS, the farmer still plays a relatively passive role (Pigford et al, 2018;Sutherland et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

Leveraging the potential of co-operative agri-advisory services in the transition to sustainable and landscape-based agriculture

Byrne,

McCarthy,

Ryan-Doyle

2024

Int. Food Agribus. Manag. Rev.

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Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) have always had a central role to play at each juncture in agricultural development and innovation. A transition to sustainable agriculture requires an agri-advisory response which draws on the agency and knowledge of the farmer(s), is more tailored to a particular local context and encourages the sharing of knowledge and experimentation across farms in a landscape. Co-operatives, as collaborative, farmer-owned and embedded entities, would seem to be well placed to play a greater role in this evolving agri-advisory space. However, there would seem to be little recognition of the current or potential role of co-operatives in agri-advice either in academic literature or policy discourse. This paper explores the current agri-advisory offering of Irish dairy co-operatives and their potential to offer an enhanced collaborative and landscape-based offering. It concludes that many of the elements are in place for such an approach but there is a greater need to leverage this potential, appreciate the benefits and enable a more farmer-centred and tailored agri-advisory orientation in co-operatives.

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Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking

Cited by 14 publications

References 63 publications

Do Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems Have the Dynamic Capabilities to Guide the Digital Transition of Short Food Supply Chains?

Do Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems Have the Dynamic Capabilities to Guide the Digital Transition of Short Food Supply Chains?

Improving the Education and Training Policies of the Agri-Food and Forestry Sectors: Identifying New Strategies to Meet the Needs of the Sector and Farm-to-Fork Priorities

Leveraging the potential of co-operative agri-advisory services in the transition to sustainable and landscape-based agriculture

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