Closing sustainability gaps on family farms: Combining on-farm co-innovation and model-based explorations

Colnago, Paula; Rossing, W.A.H.; Dogliotti, Santiago

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103017

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“…By acting as boundary objects, systems developed participatively encourage social learning between stakeholders, with the level of participation having different impacts on learning (Jakku & Thorburn 2010;Reed et al 2016b;Ryschawy et al 2022). Participation can help bridge gaps between actors that may have different perspectives on a particular issue through discussions and feedback, allowing participants to translate different perspectives and knowledge into more concrete actions (Jakku & Thorburn 2010;van Paassen et al 2011;Colnago et al 2021). This is particularly relevant in the context of animal welfare, as stakeholders' interpretation of this notion can be variable (Vanhonacker et al 2008).…”

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Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare

et al. 2023

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Digital Livestock Technologies (DLTs) can assist farmer decision-making and promise benefits to animal health and welfare. However, the extent to which they can help improve animal welfare is unclear. This study explores how DLTs may impact farm management and animal welfare by promoting learning, using the concept of boundary objects. Boundary objects may be interpreted differently by different social worlds but are robust enough to share a common identity across them. They facilitate communication around a common issue, allowing stakeholders to collaborate and co-learn. The type of learning generated may impact management and welfare differently. For example, it may help improve existing strategies (single-loop learning), or initiate reflection on how these strategies were framed initially (double-loop learning). This study focuses on two case studies, during which two DLTs were developed and tested on farms. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with stakeholders involved in the case studies (n = 31), and the results of a separate survey were used to complement our findings. Findings support the important potential of DLTs to help enhance animal welfare, although the impacts vary between technologies. In both case studies, DLTs facilitated discussions between stakeholders, and whilst both promoted improved management strategies, one also promoted deeper reflection on the importance of animal emotional well-being and on providing opportunities for positive animal welfare. If DLTs are to make significant improvements to animal welfare, greater priority should be given to DLTs that promote a greater understanding of the dimensions of animal welfare and a reframing of values and beliefs with respect to the importance of animals’ well-being.

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confidence: 99%

Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare

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“…Although these approaches provide heuristic devices for the diversity of pathways involved in farm transitions, they cannot relate all of their dimensions. To this end, mixed approaches seem a promising pathway (e.g., Colnago et al 2021). For instance, in longitudinal studies conducted in two French dairy regions, Bouttes et al (2019aBouttes et al ( , 2019bBouttes et al ( , 2020) used a mixed approach that combined inductive-content analysis of farmers' discourse and statistical analysis of multiple indicators to analyze step-bystep changes in farming practices.…”

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Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review

Prost

Martin

Ballot

et al. 2023

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies, agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This has promoted discussion about transitions to agroecology, which represents a significant advancement. Accordingly, it has become a growing field of research. We reviewed the literature on and in support of farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies in order to identify key research challenges and suggest innovative research paths. Our findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Research that supports exploration and definition of desired futures, whether based on future-oriented modeling or expert-based foresight approaches, should more explicitly include the farm level. It should stimulate the creativity and design ability of farmers and other stakeholders, and also address issues of representation and power among them. (2) Research that creates awareness and assesses farms before, during or after transition requires more holistic and dynamic assessment frameworks. These frameworks need to be more flexible to adapt to the diversity of global and local challenges. Their assessment should explicitly include uncertainty due to the feedback loops and emergent properties of transitions. (3) Research that analyzes and supports farms during transition should focus more on the dynamics of change processes by valuing what happens on the farms. Research should especially give more credence to on-farm experiments conducted by farmers and develop new tools and methods (e.g., for strategic monitoring) to support these transitions. This is the first review of scientific studies of farm transitions to agroecology. Overall, the review indicates that these transitions challenge the system boundaries, temporal horizons, and sustainability dimensions that agricultural researchers usually consider. In this context, farm transitions to agroecology require changes in the current organization and funding of research in order to encourage longer term and more adaptive configurations.

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“…Diseases of young cattle in the first months of life in the livestock farms of the country exceed 35%. Gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases account for the largest percentage of all diseases of young animals [1]. Currently, vaccines have been developed and successfully used for the specific prevention of diseases of infectious etiology, but it is not always possible to develop immunity of sufficient intensity, since vaccination without immunostimulation does not contribute to sufficient antibody formation [2].…”

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Immunocorregating properties of propolis and their composite forms

Ilyasova

Маннапова

Mudarisov

et al. 2021

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases of young farm animals account for the largest percentage of all diseases. Currently, vaccines have been developed and successfully used for the specific prevention of diseases of infectious etiology, but it is not always possible to develop immunity of sufficient intensity, since vaccination without immunostimulation does not contribute to sufficient antibody formation. One of the important tasks of practical veterinary medicine was to find environmentally safe immunocorregulating substances that do not have a suppressive effect on the body. It was established that the drug ferran activated hematopoietic reactions of the body. Ferran in combination with enterozyme restores immunopoiesis and erythropoiesis to the indicators of physiological norms. The combined use of enterozyme with propolis hasda high immunostimulating effect, enhanced the productive phase of the immune response, removed the suppressive effect of the vaccine and increased the factors of natural and colonization resistance of the intestine.

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Closing sustainability gaps on family farms: Combining on-farm co-innovation and model-based explorations

Cited by 15 publications

References 41 publications

Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare

Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare

Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review

Immunocorregating properties of propolis and their composite forms

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