IFSA 2018 Symposium Session Programme
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Monday, July 2nd, 2018
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.1 Livestock/dairy
Room Democritus; Monday, July 2│11:00-12:30
Chair Eelke Wielinga
- Livestock farming systems and society: identification and analysis of key controversies from the perspective of different stakeholders
Elsa Delanoue, Anne-Charlotte Dockès, Christine Roguet
- Alternative trajectories of dairy farmers reveal their embeddedness in the mainstream dairying and articulation with structural dynamics
Véronique De Herde, Philippe V. Baret
- Forms of territorial embeddedness in dairy value chains. Case of the Chartreuse massif (French Alps): geographical and historical perspectives
Sophie Madelrieux, Agnès Bergeret, Laurent Fillion
- The Kenyan dairy sector: stakeholder roles and relationships, and their impact on milk quality
Simon Nyokabi, Simon Oosting, Bockline Bebe, Lisette Phelan, Bernard Bett, Johanna Lindahl, Imke de Boer
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.9 The role of Localised AgriFood Systems and place-based products in the transition pathways towards sustainable agrifood systems: LAFs and territorial resources
Room Thales; Monday, July 2│11:00-12:30
Chair François Casabianca
- Collective (family) human capital and transition towards multifunctional agriculture in localized agrifood systems
Luigi Simeone, Luca Bartoli, Marcello De Rosa
- How does decentralization of pasture management affect the local communities? Evolution and perspectives from Southeast Albania
Florjan Bombaj, Dominique Barjolle, François Casabianca, Theodosia Anthopoulou
- Integrated supply-chain projects and multifunctional local development: The creation of a Perfumes Valley in Tuscany
Silvia Scaramuzzi, Giovanni Belletti, Paola Biagioni
- By-products from raising small ruminants: an analysis based on the “baskets of goods” theory – A comparative study of Corsica, Sardinia and Morocco
Nicolas Lacombe, François Casabianca
Theme 3 Integrating science, technology, policy and practice
Session 3.1 Co-production approaches I
Room Theophrastus; Monday, July 2│11:00-12:30
Chair Julie Ingram
- Integrating social science and agricultural practice through serious gaming – perspectives on benefits and challenges
Therese Asplund, Tina-Simone Neset, Janina Käyhkö, Lotten Wiréhn, Sirkku Juhola
- Participatory socio-economic scenario development for land use change: a methodological approach
Rike Stotten, Markus Schermer, Ulrich Strasser, Gertraud Meißl, Thomas Marke, Kristian Förster, Herbert Formayer
- The potential of digital platforms to facilitate the diffusion of diversification strategies in agriculture
Emilia Schmitt, Seraina Schwab, Fabienne Vukotic, Isabel Jaisli
- Facilitating the collaboration of practitioner and scientific knowledge: experiences from an Australian action research intervention
Jana-Axinja Paschen, Jim Shovelton, Andrea Evers, Carole Hollier, Ruth Nettle, Margaret Ayre, Barbara King, Nicole Reichelt
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.1 Advisory services and farmers’ decision making: Better understanding farmers’ decision making
Room Heraclitus; Monday, July 2│11:00-12:30
Chair Pierre Labarthe
- Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour framework to understand Tasmanian farmer decision making and adoption of pasture management practices to inform future extension
Alison Hall, Lydia Turner, Sue Kilpatrick
- Advisory role in farmers’ micro systems of agricultural knowledge and innovation (microAKIS)
Pierre Labarthe, Lee-Ann Sutherland, Boelie Elzen, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica
- Motivations for Swiss lowland farmers to conserve biodiversity: Can individual beliefs be influenced by on-farm advice?
Vanessa Gabel, Robert Home, Matthias Stolze, Lukas Pfiffner, Simon Birrer, Ulrich Köpke
- Nutrient management planning and water protection efficiency: examining the farmers’ attitudes towards using soil testing as a nutrient management tool
Evgenia Micha, John Lynch
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.4 Learning, participatory methods, system thinking, design: AKIS design
Room Pythagoras; Monday, July 2│11:00-12:30
Chair Chris Blackmore
- Developing learning systems for addressing uncertainty in farming, food and environment: what has changed in recent times?
Chris Blackmore, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Ray Ison
- Learning from the developmental history of sustainable farming initiatives
Laure Triste, Joke Vandenabeele, Ludwig Lauwers, Fleur Marchand
- Agroecological transition: human skills and social life matter for local actors
Gwen Christiansen, Jean Simonneaux, Laurent Hazard
- Reaping the rewards of learning within agricultural knowledge systems: An account of a PhD learning system
Catherine Seale, Andy Lane, Chris High, Áine Macken-Walsh, Martin Reynolds
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.8 Farming system transitions to balance food production and sustainability: Perspectives from farm to landscape scale, actors and land use, drivers and constraints
Room Socrates; Monday, July 2│11:00-12:30
Chair Katharina Schmidt
- Assessing sustainable intensification at landscape scale: four case studies in Europe
Etienne Polge, Marta Debolini
- Streamlining transition towards Sustainable Intensification: The role of societal context and knowledge brokerage
Katharina Schmidt, Lorena Tudela Marco, Anita Beblek
- Farmers’ choices of adopting and coupling strategies of sustainable intensification – Evidence from European farm level data
Meike Weltin, Ingo Zasada
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.2 Transition pathways
Room Democritus; Monday, July 2│13:00-14:30
Chair Ika Darnhofer
- Power and politics in agri-food sustainability transitions
Hamid El Bilali, Michael Hauser, Maria Wurzinger, Andreas Melcher, Lorenz Probst
- Creating the conditions for a transition towards more sustainable farming systems: a participatory approach with prospective scenarios
Clémentine Antier, Timothée Petel, Philippe V. Baret
- New local food systems in the Andes and their contribution to recognition of peasantries: the case of community baskets and citizen markets in the province of Chimborazo, Ecuador
Claire Heinisch
- Transforming agri-food systems for Agroecology development: exploring conditions of success in European case studies
Marc Moraine, Sarah Lumbroso, Xavier Poux
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.10 The role of Localised AgriFood Systems and place-based products in the transition pathways towards sustainable agrifood systems: Interaction between LAFS and GI place-based productions
Room Thales; Monday, July 2│13:00-14:30
Chair Andrea Marescotti
- Localized AgriFood Systems dynamics and Geographical Indications as ways to reinforce food systems’ sustainability? Case studies in Mongolia and Peru
Stéphane Fournier, Blandine Arvis, Fanny Michaud
- Are geographical indications heading towards more environment-friendly Product Specifications? An analysis of PDO-PGI amendments in the fruit and vegetable sector
Xiomara F. Quinones-Ruiz, Hanna Forster, Andrea Marescotti, Marianne Penker, Giovanni Belletti, Silvia Scaramuzzi, Kristina Broscha, Christine Altenbuchner
- Protected Designation of Origin and spatial justice. Insights from Ossau-Iraty (French Pyrenees) and Brocciu (Corsica Island)
Morgane Millet, François Casabianca
Theme 3 Integrating science, technology, policy and practice
Session 3.2 Co-production approaches II
Room Theophrastus; Monday, July 2│13:00-14:30
Chair Therese Asplund
- Using a co-innovation approach to accelerate the development of dairy sheep enterprises in New Zealand
David Stevens, Linda Samuelsson, Sue McCoard, Li Day, Wayne Young, Natalie Bartlett, William Konui, Peter Gatley, Nick Hammond, Thomas MacDonald, Miles King, Jazz Hewittson
- Agricultural knowledge and systems in Basilicata, southern Italy: key actors and implementation of dialogue
Maria Assunta D’Oronzio, Giuseppina Costantini
- Evaluating interactive innovation processes: towards a developmental-oriented analytical framework
Simona Cristiano, Patrizia Proietti
- The implementation of vine varieties testing in Languedoc: a watershed in the production of knowledge?
Sophie Tabouret
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.2 Advisory services and farmers’ decision making: Pluralistic advisory systems and farmers’ decision making
Room Heraclitus; Monday, July 2│13:00-14:30
Chair Ruth Nettle
- Assessment of pluralistic advisory services: A case of Madhupur Sal forest in Bangladesh
Khondokar Humayun Kabir, Andrea Knierim, Ataharul Huq Chowdhury
- Knowledge and innovation in the agrifood supply chain: Old metaphors and new research directions
Evagelos D. Lioutas, Chrysanthi Charatsari, Marcello De Rosa, Giuseppe La Rocca
- The advisory and extension system in Australia: Opportunities for strength in pluralism
Ruth Nettle, Margaret Ayre, Barbara King, Nathan La, Jana-Axinja Paschen, Nichole Reichelt, Erin Smith
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.5 Learning, participatory methods, system thinking, design: New roles of extension & research
Room Pythagoras; Monday, July 2│13:00-14:30
Chair Thomas Aenis
- A device for sharing knowledge and experiences on experimental farm station to sustain the agroecological transition
Juliette Anglade, Matthieu Godfroy, Xavier Coquil
- Assessing the role of the research in the transition to organic farming by using the Actor Network Theory: lessons from two case studies in France and Bulgaria
Sylvain Quiédeville, Petya Slavova, Jean-Marc Touzard, Dominique Barjolle
- Transforming higher education: How universities can engage with stakeholders
Maria Wurzinger, Gustavo Gutierrez, Carlos Gomez, Hernán Cucho, Liliana Picardi, Graciela Nievas, Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Frederic Lhoste
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.9 Panel session: Farm and land system dynamics in the Mediterranean basin
Room Socrates; Monday, July 2│13:00-14:30
Chair Marta Debolini & Elisa Marraccini
Panelists Johanna Fusco, Olga Moreno Perez, Sylvie Lardon
External discussants Rosalia Filippini, Esther Sanz Sanz
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.11 The role of Localised AgriFood Systems and place-based products in the transition pathways towards sustainable agrifood systems: GI evaluation from a sustainable development point of view
Room Thales; Monday, July 2│16:00-17:30
Chair Dominique Barjolle
- The key role of Geographical Indications in the governance of ‘terroir niches’. Insights from three Corsican case studies
Raphael Belmin, François Casabianca
- Economic impacts of Geographical Indications: Worldwide evidences from 9 case studies
Emilie Vandecandelaere, Catherine Teyssier, Dominique Barjolle, Stéphane Fournier, Philippe Jeanneaux, Olivier Beucherie
- Geographical indications to enhance the value chain of agricultural and agri-food products in Benin: Sugar loaf pineapple and Wagashi case
Adégnandjou Mahouna Roland Fadina, Dominique Barjolle
Theme 3 Integrating science, technology, policy and practice
Session 3.3 Management approaches for resilient and sustainable farming & Strategies and methods for managing and monitoring farm resources
Room Theophrastus; Monday, July 2│16:00-17:30
Chair Jana-Axinja Paschen
- Individual preferences and public incentives: What agro-environmental scheme for grassland restoration by farmers? The case if the Normandy region in France
Marie Asma Ben Othmen
- Making smallholder farming systems in Nigeria sustainable and climate smart
Oreoluwa Akano, Sinah Modirwa, Azeez Yusuf, Oladimeji Oladele
- Understanding and changing farming and food & fiber systems. The organic cotton case in Mali and West Africa
Gian L. Nicolay
- A transferable strategy to reduce competition for food and feed production in the establishment of agroforestry systems for energy production
Rico Hübner, Andrea Winterling
- Researchers, advisors and growers working together to design monitoring methods for functional agro-biodiversity
Aurélie Cardona, Servane Penvern, Marc Tchamitchian
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.3 Advisory services and farmers’ decision making: From inventors to social media: new forms of decision making challenge advisory services
Room Heraclitus; Monday, July 2│16:00-17:30
Chair Annemarieke de Bruin
- An investigation of social media’s roles in knowledge exchange by farmers
Tom Phillips, Laurens Klerkx, Marie McEntee
- Innovating in context: social learning and agricultural innovation
Annemarieke de Bruin, Jonathan Ensor
- Farmers doing it for themselves: how farmer-inventors are frustrated by their interactions with the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System
Trish O’Flynn, Áine Macken-Walsh, Andy Lane, Chris High
- Constraints to liquid fertilizer usage in dry season vegetable production in the Southern Guinea Savannah Zone of Nigeria
Ivie Olaghere, Abdulazeez Muhammad-Lawal, Kemi Omotesho
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.6 Learning, participatory methods, system thinking, design: Learning towards Agro-ecological transition
Room Pythagoras; Monday, July 2│16:00-17:30
Chair Thomas Aenis
- Farmers’ involvement in collective experimental designs in a French region, Rhône-Alpes. How do they contribute to farmers’ learning and facilitate the agroecological transition?
Mireille Navarrete, Hélène Brives, Maxime Catalogna, Lucie Gouttenoire, Claire Heinisch, Claire Lamine, Emilie Ollion, Sylvaine Simon
- SEGAE: a serious game project for agroecology learning
Olivier Godinot
- Using the concept of ecosystem services to foster social learning for concerted management of social ecological system: preliminary results from a case study in Mont Lozère, France
Clémence Moreau, Cécile Barnaud, Raphaël Mathevet
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.1 Sustainability of farm systems
Room Socrates; Monday, July 2│16:00-17:30
Chair Antonella Vastola
- Supporting farmers in the transition to agroecology to promote carbon sequestration from silvopastoral systems
Sara Burbi, Rodrigo Olave
- Animal domestic biodiversity in farms: considering social interactions surrounding the farms together with farming systems specificities
Anne Lauvie, Marie-Odile Nozières-Petit, Nathalie Couix
- Benefits of diversified horticultural systems: assessment with the modern portfolio theory
Raphaël Paut, Rodolphe Sabatier, Marc Tchamitchian
- Conservation agriculture systems: an economic viable solution experimented in a Mediterranean area of Southern Italy
Antonella Vastola, Mario Cozzi, Mauro Viccaro, Valeria Grippo, Severino Romano
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.4 Resilience and agroecology
Room Democritus; Wednesday, July 4│09:00-10:30
Chair Ika Darnhofer
- Quality labels as drivers of periurban livestock farming resilience
Rosalia Filippini, Sylvie Lardon, Tiziana Sabbatini, Elisa Marraccini
- Resilience of smallholder farmers: a SWOT analysis in rural Italy
Rafaela Reznik Rocha
- On farm level acting in order to mitigate climate change with help of a points-based system
Aurelia Nyfeler-Brunner, Daniel U. Baumgartner, Gérard Gaillard, Sarah Hofmann
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.12 SUFISA paper session: Managing risks in farming
Room Thales; Wednesday, July 4│09:00-10:30
Chair Egon Noe
- Lending to a farmer: a comparative analysis of frames banks use to interpret agriculture
Mikelis Grivins, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, Damian Maye, Pierre-Marie Aubert
- Farming strategies in the continuously evolving European dairy market – a comparative case study of five different EU countries
Martin Thorsøe, Egon Noe, Pierre-Marie Aubert, Damian Maye, Mauro Vigani, James Kirwan, Hannah Chiswell, Mikelis Grivins, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Talis Tisenkopfs, Emi Tsakalou
- Farmer strategies to manage market uncertainty: commodity-level analysis and critique
Damian Maye, James Kirwan, Hannah Chiswell, Mauro Vigani, José Muñoz-Rojas, Erik Mathijs, Isabelle Bonjean, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, Egon Noe, Susanne Von Münchausen, Mikelis Grivins, Pierre-Marie Aubert, Piotr Nowak, Francesca Minarelli
- Food chain structure, price and risk management strategies – insights from the Serbian raspberry case study
Zaklina Stojanovic, Radmila Dragutinovic-Mitrovic, Irena Jankovic, Bojan Ristic
Theme 3 Integrating science, technology, policy and practice
Session 3.4 Transdisciplinary methodologies and assessment frameworks
Room Theophrastus; Wednesday, July 4│09:00-10:30
Chair Thomas Aenis
- How to train transdisciplinary competences? Insights from a lecture on “System Analysis and Scenario Technique”
Valentin Fiala, Bernhard Freyer, Milena Klimek, Alexandre Fahringer
- Post-normal science in practice: a method proposal and its application to agricultural water management
Sandrine Allain, Gaël Plumecocq, Delphine Leenhardt
- Integrating sustainability at the front end of system innovations in agriculture using a triple-helix approach
Katharina Diehl, Bettina König
- Assessing the impact of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR). A tentative assessment framework
Stefano Grando, Simona Cristiano, Serenella Puliga, Annalisa Zezza
- A systems approach to explore transformative socio-technical innovations
Marianne Hubeau, Jonas Van Lancker, Fleur Marchand
Theme 4 Smart technologies in farming and food systems
Session 4.1 Development of smart farming technologies and tools
Room Heraclitus; Wednesday, July 4│09:00-10:30
Chair Andy Wilcox
- Digital tools co-creation to ease the dialog among farmers’ communities with diverse visions. A practical case with conventional and organic farmers in CAPSELLA
Mariateresa Lazzaro, Peter Paree, Diego Guidotti, Panagiota Koltsida, Stephen Benians, Paolo Barberi, Eleni Toli
- Inventory of smart farming technologies – focus of commercial and research products
Spyros Fountas, Frits van Evert, Athanasios Balafoutis, Vasileios Psiroukis, Michael Koutsiaras, Konstantinos Grivakis, Pieter Blok, Chris van Dijk, Sandra Wolters, Sakura Tomita, Herman Berghuijs
- A Virtual Dairy Farm Brain
Di Liang, Hector Delgado, Victor Cabrera
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.7 Education and training of farmers and advisors. Skills and competences: Professionalization in extension and higher education
Room Pythagoras; Wednesday, July 4│09:00-10:30
Chair Barbara King
- Becoming an adviser within the privatized extension sector: Challenges and successes of seven early career advisers
Barbara King, Sally Martin, Irene Sobotta, Jana-Axinja Paschen, Margaret Ayre, Nicole Reichelt, Ruth Nettle
- Towards competence-oriented learning in rural development: Transdisciplinary Student Team Investigation in Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua and China
Álvaro Acevedo Osorio, Susanne Hofmann-Souki, Juana Cruz Morales
- A robot from the scratch in 5 months. How agronomy students could master agricultural equipment innovation
Davide Rizzo, Mehdi Jaber, Andrii Yatskul, Benoît Detot, Anne Combaud
- Financial literacy in rural areas of Kazakhstan – determinants and characteristics
Sholpan Gaisina
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.2 The technical dimension
Room Socrates; Wednesday, July 4│09:00-10:30
Chair Angelos Liontakis
- Optimizing a green manure-based row cropping system for organic cereal production
Hong TT Phan, Kristian Thorup-Kristensen
- New arrangements for an agroecological management of animal health. The case of French farmers learning homeopathy
Louis Rénier, Aurélie Cardona, Élisabeth Lécrivain
- Local Dioscorea sp production systems and their potential for agroecological practices in the central part of Cote d’Ivoire
Esther Oka, Anne Floquet
- Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and technical efficiency of Greek dairy sheep production systems: meeting the ecological challenge
Alexandra Sintori, Angelos Liontakis, Irene Tzouramani
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.5 Markets and power
Room Democritus; Wednesday, July 4│11:00-12:30
Chair Ika Darnhofer
- Power imbalances in the Belgian sugar beet market: employing systems thinking for a supply chain analysis
Katharina Biely, Steven Van Passel
- Food systems and farmers’ bargaining power: The case of “Unfair Trade Practices” in the EU
Miguel Angel de Porras Acuna, Sylvain Quiédeville
- Evaluation of farmers’ markets from the organisers’, producers’ and consumers’ perspective in Hungary
Dorottya Szabó, Anikó Juhász, Katalin Olga Kujáni
- The role of cooperation for sustainability innovations in the agriculture and food sector
Martina Schäfer, Bettina König, Jana Zscheischler
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.13 SUFISA paper session: Regional and sectoral condition for farming in Europe
Room Thales; Wednesday, July 4│11:00-12:30
Chair Erik Mathijs
- The role of territorial conditions in influencing the sustainability of farming systems and strategies across Europe: a comparative analysis
José Muñoz-Rojas, Fabio Bartolini, Damian Maye, Susanne von Münchausen, Egon Noe, Teresa Pinto-Correia, Martin. H. Thorsoe, Danielle Vergamini
- Various strategies for different sectors and regions concerning agricultural production; The case of apples in Małopolska (Poland)
Piotr Nowak, Krzysztof Gorlach, Adam Dąbrowski, Anna Witowska
- Strategies farmers use to shape supply chain: a comparative analysis of dairy and grain farmers in Latvia
Mikelis Grivins, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Talis Tisenkopfs
- Increasing costs for land use challenge the international competitiveness of European arable farming – lessons learned from SUFISA case studies in three different areas
Susanne von Münchhausen, Tanja Möllmann, Piotr Nowak
Theme 4 Smart technologies in farming and food systems
Session 4.2 Smart farming adoption and use by farmers
Room Heraclitus; Wednesday, July 4│11:00-12:30
Chair Julie Ingram
- Important lessons from new tailor-made services for smallholder farmers
Antonius G.T. Schut, Keiji Jindo, Johannes W.A. Langeveld, Marja Rijerse, Lydia Munika, Peter Matyoko
- What drives adoption of smart farming technologies? Evidence from a cross-country study
Andrea Knierim, Friederike Borges, Maria Lee Kernecker, Teresa Kraus, Angelika Wurbs
- An analysis of farmers’ perceptions of the impact of technology on farm
Luiza Toma, Andrew Barnes
- The potential impact of mobile phone application in agroecological transitioning in southeast Nigeria
Ezinne Merianchris Emeana, Liz Trenchard
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.8 Education and training of farmers and advisors. Skills and competences: Agronomic education for sustainable development
Room Pythagoras; Wednesday, July 4│11:00-12:30
Chair Peter Paree
- FarmDemo: Valorize expertise through a joint ‘visionary framework’ for two H2020 projects
Boelie Elzen, Peter Paree, Marleen Gysen, Claire Hardy, Lee-Ann Sutherland, Fleur Marchand, Lies Debruyne, Miguel Cordero, Ivonne de Bruijn
- Agronomic education and the quest for sustainability: Is there a link?
Chrysanthi Charatsari, Afroditi Papadaki-Klavdianou, Alex Koutsouris, Evagelos D. Lioutas
- Making “middle managers”: Workforce development for agricultural industries in transition
Michael Santhanam-Martin, Lisa Cowan
- Challenges of labour supply in agri-food sector in Hungary
Eszter Hamza, Katalin Rácz, Dorottya Szabó, Orsolya Márkiné Tóth, Eszter Varga
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.3 Framing and frameworks
Room Socrates; Wednesday, July 4│11:00-12:30
Chair Stéphane Bellon
- A mixed method approach to characterize and explain the pursuit of agroecological principles at Flemish beef farms
Louis Tessier, Jo Bijttebier, Fleur Marchand, Philippe Baret
- The European networks of research, education and training stakeholders in agroecology
Rose Nicot, Stéphane Bellon, Allison Loconto, Guillaume Ollivier
- From land restructuration to land grabbing – the political context of agroecology
Stephanie Domptail, Sarah Rauer, Bernd Müller, Daniel Mühlleitner, Ernst-August Nuppenau
- How to address sustainability transition of farming systems? A position paper
Guillaume Martin, Sandrine Allain, Jacques-Eric Bergez, Delphine Burger-Leenhardt, Julie Constantin, Michel Duru, Laurent Hazard, Camille Lacombe, Danièle Magda, Marie-Angélina Magne, Julie Ryschawy, Vincent Thénard, Hélène Tribouillois, Magali Willaume
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.6 Value chains and markets I
Room Democritus; Wednesday, July 4│13:00-14:30
Chair Eelke Wielinga
- Floriculture and Floral Design. New high added-value markets and innovative origin-based qualification strategies for a sustainable revival of the Tuscan floriculture system
Silvia Scaramuzzi, Sara Gabellini
- Which pathways for thriving tuber value chains in West Africa
Anne Floquet
- Making sense of flexibility within value chains – Observations in the rubber sector in Southern China
Susanne Hofmann-Souki, Jue Wang
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.14 SUFISA paper session: Cooperation as farming strategy
Room Thales; Wednesday, July 4│13:00-14:30
Chair Isabelle Bonjean
- Cooperatives adapting to market conditions: insights from a comparative study of apple and pear farming in Poland, Italy and Belgium
Eewoud Lievens, Isabelle Bonjean, Adam Dabrowski, Francesca Minarelli, Krzysztof Gorlach, Meri Raggi, Piotr Nowak, Davide Viaggi, Erik Mathijs
- Vertical integration as future strategy to increase value absorption of primary producers: the Belgian sugar beet and the German rapeseed case
Katharina Biely, Susanne von Münchhausen, Steven Van Passel
- How the interplay between social capital creation and adaptive arrangements can impact the resilience of small-scale fisheries in different European contexts
Paolo Prosperi, James Kirwan, Emi Tsakalou, George Vlahos, Damian Maye, Fabio Bartolini, Daniele Vergamini, Gianluca Brunori
Theme 3 Integrating science, technology, policy and practice
Session 3.5 Panel Session: How to capture benefits and interactivity in multi-actor innovation processes
Room Theophrastus; Wednesday, July 4│13:00-14:30
Chair Simona Cristiano & Patrizia Proietti
Panelists Virgilio Buscemi, Boelie Elzen, Boru Douthwaite, Inge Van Oost
Theme 4 Smart technologies in farming and food systems
Session 4.3 Trust, risk and governance in value chains: which impact of Big data and smart solutions?
Room Heraclitus; Wednesday, July 4│13:00-14:30
Chair Laurens Klerkx
- The role of ICTs in improving smallholder maize farming livelihoods: The mediation of trust in value chain financing
Christopher Agyekumhene, Jasper R. de Vries, Annemarie van Paassen, Philip Macnaghten, Marc Schut, Arnold Bregt
- “If they don’t tell us what they do with it, why would we trust them?” Applying the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions to understand trust, transparency and benefit-sharing in Smart Farming and Big Data
Emma Jakku, Bruce Taylor, Aysha Fleming, Claire Mason, Simon Fielke, Peter Thorburn, Chris Sounness
- Smart Farming in Ireland: Anticipating positive and negative impacts through a qualitative study of risk and benefit perceptions amongst expert actors in the Irish agri-food sector
Áine Regan, Stuart Green, Paul Maher
- The ‘Digitalisation of Agricultural Innovation Systems’: Governing the DAIS and exploring the prawn aquaculture value chain
Simon J. Fielke, Robert Garrard, Emma Jakku, Aysha Fleming, Leanne Wiseman, Bruce M. Taylor, Ryan McAllister
- How can we make sense of smart technologies for sustainable agriculture? – A discussion paper
Heidrun Moschitz, Matthias Stolze
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.9 Education and training of farmers and advisors. Skills and competences: Innovative approaches to education and training
Room Pythagoras; Wednesday, July 4│13:00-14:30
Chair Thomas Aenis
- “Cropping School” – An alternative to advisory services in Brandenburg, Germany?
Sabrina Scholz, Ralf Bloch, Susanne von Münchhausen, Anna Maria Häring
- Management and strategic advisory by using farm-based sustainability assessment in Denmark. Exemplifying the importance of imagery and process guidance (facilitation)
Frank Oudshoorn, Lesley Lap
- Learnings from an exploratory implementation of an innovative training-program to improve and reduce antibiotic use in the dairy sector
Axelle Poizat, Brigitte Frappat, Sabrina Corbel, Philippe Roussel, Marylise Le Guénic, Florence Bonnet-Beaugrand, Julie Duval, Nathalie Bareille
- Farmer Action Groups – A participatory approach to reducing antimicrobial use on UK dairy farms
Lisa Morgans, Sarah Bolt, Lisa van Dijk, Henry Buller, Maria P. Escobar, Kristen Reyher, David Main
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.4 System drivers I
Room Socrates; Wednesday, July 4│13:00-14:30
Chair Rike Stotten
- Thinking about the future of farming through different facets of “work in agriculture”. Textual analysis of papers from the first Symposium on Work in Agriculture
Priscila Duarte Malanski, Sandra Schiavi, Benoît Dedieu
- The diversity of farmers’ practices and relations facing urban demands. A case study in Montpellier (France)
Nabil Hasnaoui Amri, Laura Etienne, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard
- How can collective organization and the search for autonomy lead to an agroecological transition? The example of farm machinery cooperatives in France
Stéphane de Tourdonnet, Jean-Marc Barbier, Sarah Courty, Pauline Martel, Véronique Lucas
- New farming arrangements for resilience
Rike Stotten, Georg Leitinger
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.7 Value chains and markets II
Room Democritus; Wednesday, July 4│16:00-17:30
Chair Eelke Wielinga
- Myths of intermediaries’ in citrus supply chain in Pakistan
Saleem Ashraf
- Strategies to valorise agrobiodiversity
Bernadette Oehen, Claudia Meier, Philipp Holzherr, Iris Förster
- Assessing healthy food chains
Eelke Wielinga, Peter Paree
- Finding and analysing social hotspots in a global food value chain as a basis for livelihood improvement
Sonja Trachsel, Isabel Jaisli, Emilia Schmitt
- More than wheat – the market potential of currently underutilised cereal crops
Bernadette Oehen, Heidrun Moschitz
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.3 Organic farming
Room Thales; Wednesday, July 4│16:00-17:30
Chair Ika Darnhofer
- Participatory guarantee systems: organic certification to empower farmers and strengthen communities
Robert Home, Hervé Bouagnimbeck, Roberto Ugas, Markus Arbenz, Matthias Stolze
- How to influence the change in scale of organic agriculture when you are not in the driver’s seat? The case of the French National Federation of Organic Farming
Quentin Chance, Ronan Le Velly, Frédéric Goulet
- Which type of institution is able of initiating a sustainable change of paradigm in agrifood systems? A reflection based on the research in organic farming in Wallonia
Julie Van Damme, Marie Moerman
Theme 4 Smart technologies in farming and food systems
Session 4.4 Smart farming, advisory services and knowledge systems
Room Heraclitus; Wednesday, July 4│16:00-17:30
Chair Pierre Labarthe
- Digitalisation of agricultural knowledge providers: the case of New Zealand
Kelly Rijswijk, Laurens Klerkx, James A. Turner
- Exploring the value proposition of digital technologies in smart farming: an approach co-designed by agricultural advisors
Margaret Ayre, Vivienne McCollum, Warwick Waters, Peter Samson, Anthony Curro, Ruth Nettle, Jana Paschen, Barbara King, Nicole Reichelt
- Farm advisors need to adapt to provide value to farmers in a smart farming future
Callum Eastwood, Margaret Ayre, Brian Dela Rue
- Reflections on co-constructing a digital adviser with stakeholders in agriculture and forestry
Julie Ingram, Pete Gaskell
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.15 Panel session: Introducing the invisible into agricultural knowledge systems
Room Pythagoras; Wednesday, July 4│16:00-17:30
Chair Julia Wright
Panelists Christopher Brock, Saskia Von Diest
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.5 System drivers II
Room Socrates; Wednesday, July 4│16:00-17:30
Chair Simona Zollet
- Neo-farmers: drivers of farming systems innovation and of the transition to agro-ecology? The case of Alentejo (Portugal)
Paula Dolci, Coline Perrin
- Trade-offs between dreams and reality: Agroecological orchard co-design
Servane Penvern, Blandine Chieze, Sylvaine Simon
- Agroforestry market gardening: a strategic choice to improve sustainability in agroecological transition?
François Léger, Kevin Morel, Agnès Bellec-Gauche, François Warlop
- Towards sustainability transitions in Japanese agri-food systems: the role of new entrant organic farmers in rural areas of Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
Simona Zollet
Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.8 Sustainability
Room Democritus; Thursday, July 5│09:00-10:30
Chair Eelke Wielinga
- The impact of the Common Agricultural Policy on Cretan landscape and rural livelihood
Annabelle Boulay, Richard Pope
- Developing a tool to evaluate the sustainability of intra-urban farms
Agnès Lelièvre, Paola Clérino
- Exploring the path of wine sustainability in isolated and limited production systems. A comparative analysis between two islands, Elba (Italy) and Santorini (Greece)
Daniele Vergamini, George Vlahos, Paolo Prosperi, Fabio Bartolini, Gianluca Brunori
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.10 Designing extension and advisory services: models and methods
Room Theophrastus; Thursday, July 5│09:00-10:30
Chair Simona Cristiano & Patrizia Proietti
- Demand-based extension models for smallholder farmers in Malawi
Hastings Chiwasa, Daimon Kambewa
- Characteristics of successful extension education programs: Dairy examples from the University of Maryland Extension
Dale M. Johnson, LeAnn A. Johnson
- An opportunity not to be missed: the possibilities to support Australian dairy and meat processors in agricultural advisory service provision
Nicole Reichelt, Jacqui Knee, Bruce Hancock, Ian Linley, Doug McNicholl, Ashley Norval, Jana-Axinja Paschen, Ruth Nettle, Barbara King, Margaret Ayre
- Setting-up a Farm Advisory Network in the Agricultural University of Athens: an exploratory analysis
Vasilia Konstantidelli, Alexandros Koutsouris, Pavlos Karanikolas, Konstantinos Tsiboukas
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.12 Paper session: Space for Agricultural Innovation (AgriSpin)
Room Pythagoras; Thursday, July 5│09:00-10:30
Chair Alex Koutsouris
- Diversity of innovation support services and influence on innovation processes in Europe – Lessons from the AgriSpin project
Hycenth Tim Ndah, Andrea Knierim, Alex Koutsouris, Guy Faure
- Tools to observe innovation processes: The AgriSpin experience
Eelke Wielinga, Alex Koutsouris
- Innovation support in farmer-driven processes – Lessons from Greece
Alex Koutsouris, Eleni Zarokosta
- Multi-actor interaction and coordination in the development of a territorial innovation project: some insights from the Cilento Bio-district in Italy
Elena Favilli, Tim Hycent Ndah, Yulia Barabanova
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.6 Agri-food systems and certification
Room Socrates; Thursday, July 5│09:00-10:30
Chair Teresa Pinto-Correia
- A framework to characterize the diversity of food systems and their transition pathways
Daniel Gaitán-Cremaschi, Laurens Klerkx, Jessica Duncan, Jacques H. Trienekens, Carlos Huenchuleo, Santiago Dogliotti, María E. Contesse, Walter A.H. Rossing
- Assessing food balance of Mediterranean city-regions. A multi-level methodology to highlight interactions between land system and food systems
Esther Sanz Sanz
- Participatory Guarantee Systems: social innovation within the agroecological transition
Antonieta Carolina Reyes Gómez, Michaël Pouzenc
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.15 SALSA Paper session: Our food systems are broken, can small farmers help to fix them?
Room Democritus; Thursday, July 5│11:00-12:30
Chair María Rivera Méndez
- Food system integration of olive oil producing small farms: a comparative study of four Mediterranean regions
Pavlos Karanikolas, Teresa Pinto Correia, Victor Martinez-Gomez, Francesca Galli, Paola Andrea Hernandez, Laura Fastelli, Laura Arnalte-Mur, Maria Rivera Mendez, Paolo Prosperi, Giannis Goussios
- Exploring the diverse connections between small farms and food consumption: case studies from Poland, Romania and Latvia
Marta Czekaj, Ewa Tyran, Sandra Šūmane, Barbu Raluca Ioana
- Assessing small farms’ role in the food systems at regional level: insights from a territorial approach
Teresa Pinto Correia, Alejandro Guarín, Karlheinz Knickel, Sergio Godinho, María Rivera Méndez, Stefano Grando, Gianluca Brunori
- Territorial fitting of small farms
Talis Tisenkopfs, Sandra Šūmane, Anda Ādamsone-Fiskoviča, Miķelis Grīviņš
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.11 Governance and implementation of multi-actor innovations
Room Theophrastus; Thursday, July 5│11:00-12:30
Chair Simona Cristiano & Patrizia Proietti
- How long does it take to make innovation became custom? The montado case study
Mª Helena Guimarães, Mª Isabel Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Mª Teresa Pinto-Correia
- Stakeholder perception and learning from projects: Multi actor agricultural projects
Arundhita Bhanjdeo, Marta Hernandez-Jover, Gavin Ramsay
- Promoting sustainable food systems in EU’s remote rural regions through a place-based knowledge approach
Paola Andrea Hernández
- Do EIP interactive innovation approaches interact each other?
Simona Cristiano, Patrizia Proietti
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.13 Paper session: On-farm demonstrations: developing effective peer to peer learning processes (AgriDemo & PLAID)
Room Pythagoras; Thursday, July 5│11:00-12:30
Chair Fleur Marchand
- Demonstration farms in historical context
Rob J.F. Burton, Lee-Ann Sutherland, Claire Hardy
- Structural aspects of on-farm demonstrations: Key considerations in the planning and design process
Eleni Pappa, Alex Koutsouris, Julie Ingram, Lies Debruyne, Hanne Cooreman, Fleur Marchand
- Identifying functional characteristics that enable learning in demonstrations: a discussion paper
Julie Ingram, Hannah Chiswell, Jane Mills, Lies Debruyne, Hanne Cooreman, Alex Koutsouris, Eleni Pappa, Fleur Marchand
- Development process of a conceptual framework to investigate the role of peer learning processes at on-farm demonstrations in the light of sustainable agriculture
Hanne Cooreman, Joke Vandenabeele, Lies Debruyne, Julie Ingram, Hannah Chiswell, Alex Koutsouris, Eleni Pappa, Fleur Marchand
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.7 Sustainability evaluation and indicators
Room Socrates; Thursday, July 5│11:00-12:30
Chair Marc Tchamichian
- Evaluating sustainability of farms: introducing a new conceptual framework based on three dimensions and five key properties relating to the sustainability of agriculture. The IDEA method version 4
Frédéric Zahm, Adeline Alonso Ugaglia, Jean-Marc Barbier, Héloïse Boureau, Bernard Del’homme, Mohamed Gafsi, Pierre Gasselin, Sydney Girard, Laurence Guichard, Chantal Loyce, Vincent Manneville, Amandine Menet, Barbara Redlingshöfer
- Assessment of sustainability indicators on farms under real-life conditions
Andreas Roesch, Maria Bystricky, Aurelia Nyfeler-Brunner, Hisko Baas
- Sustainability of beekeeping farms: development of an assessment framework through participatory research
Coline Kouchner, Cécile Ferrus, Samuel Blanchard, Axel Decourtye, Benjamin Basso, Yves Le Conte, Marc Tchamitchian
- A participatory method to design farm scale scenarios for recovering groundwater quality
Annabelle Richard, Marion Casagrande, Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Christophe David
Theme 5 Sustainable agrifood systems, value chains and power structures
Session 5.16 “Our food systems are broken, can small farmers help to fix them?” A panel session organised by the SALSA project team
Room Democritus; Thursday, July 5│13:00-14:30
Chair Karlheinz Knickel & Pavlos Karanikolas
Panelists Maria Partalidou, Chris Blackmore, Elisa Marraccini, Stéphane Bellon, George Vlahos, Teresa Pinto-Correia
Theme 1 Learning and knowledge systems, education, extension and advisory services
Session 1.14 Panel session: European inventories of demonstration activities (AgriDemo & PLAID)
Room Pythagoras; Thursday, July 5│13:00-14:30
Chair Fleur Marchand
Panelists Lies Debryune, Claire Hardy, Boelie Elzen, Adrien Guichaoua
Theme 2 Agroecology and new farming arrangements
Session 2.10 Panel session: Agroforestry
Room Socrates; Thursday, July 5│13:00-14:30
Chair Maria Rosa Mosquera Losada
Panelists Anastasia Pantera, Javier Santiago-Freijanes , Andreas Papadopoulos, Nathalie Corroyer