AgriLink Practice Abstracts

Short summaries of useful information and recommendations

Practice Abstracts are intended to communicate a short summary of some practical information or recommendation that has been observed or developed during the lifetime of a Horizon 2020 project. They mainly focus on issues which are relevant and attractive for farmers, farm advisers and other related practitioners, but at the same time they also aim to be interesting, accessible and understandable to a broader audience too.

Here you will find the 143 Practice Abstracts that we have produced in the AgriLink project. They have all been developed using the EIP-AGRI common format and can also be found on the EIP-AGRI website.1 and EIP-AGRI website.2

In order to increase their practical value we have enhanced them with additional information and a few photographs – plus they are downloadable as PDFs.

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Practice Abstracts

Short summaries of useful information and recommendations

PA1 – Facilitating farmer decision-making: how can advisors make the greatest impact?

PA2 – Working together for Agri-environmental benefits – the farmer cluster approach

PA3 – Advice for diversified farming systems: the case of organic farming in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

PA4 – Building platforms for improved advisor-practitioner communication: the Latvian Living Lab

PA5 – What is a Living Lab in the AgriLink project?

PA6 – Living Lab INTIA: Improving the advisory service on Integrated Pest Management

PA7 – Crop rotation between farms in Norway: Developing innovation support services and tools through Living Lab

PA8 – Improving innovation support to sustainable soil management in maize cultivation

PA9 – What is the value of an advisory service? – the case of a vegetable growers’ cooperative in Romania

PA10 – Types of knowledge and their role in providing agricultural advice

PA11 – What is the problem with “good practice”?

PA12 – Systems and complexity in agriculture

PA13 – Knowledge brokering: facilitating innovation and joint learning

PA14 – LINSA: Alternative pathways to sustainable agriculture

PA15 – How do organisations of advisory services ‘learn’?

PA16 – Anchoring and scaling of innovations in agriculture

PA17 – Sustainable development in agriculture

PA18 – Making ‘big data’ useful for farmers

PA19 – Looking into farmers’ knowledge and use of biological plant protection in Latvia

PA20 – Advisory challenges in the field of biological and integrated pest control

PA21 – Knowledge, knowing and learning to support innovation and decision-making in farming

PA22 – How farmers assemble knowledge for innovation

PA23 – What is AKIS?

PA24 – Social networks and innovation in agriculture

PA25 – Analysing farm advisory services as Knowledge Intensive Services: what can we learn for practice and policy?

PA26 – Tacit and explicit knowledge: Their usefulness for changing practices

PA27 – Working together for agri-environmental benefits – The Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund in England

PA28 – The adventurous dissemination process of avocado in Crete, Greece

PA29 – The implementation of IPM by Peach Producers Groups in Imathia, Greece

PA30 – Guided co-creation: the importance of visual representations in letting creativity unfold

PA31 – Using diagrams to help design and deliver Living Labs

PA32 – The role of formal and informal advice in farmers’ direct marketing in Latvia

PA33 – The introduction of the cultivation of stevia in Karditsa, Greece

PA34 – The introduction of chickpeas in conventional agriculture in the South-West of France

PA35 – Farmers’ micro networks: promoting peer to peer learning through demonstration

PA36 – Involvement of experts, advisors, farmers and cooperatives to promote innovations

PA37 – How is Design Thinking used in the living lab?

PA38 – The knowledge needs for commons management, Solidal Economy District in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

PA39 – Soil Erosion Calculator – internet application for farmers

PA40 – Benefits of growing poppies with an auxiliary crop

PA41 – Decision-making support for farmers in the field of Precision farming

PA42 – Adoption of smart farming technologies

PA43 – AKIS in the future CAP strategic plan of the Czech Republic

PA44 – How to make a Living Lab work in an agricultural advisory service

PA45 – Evolution of IPM techniques and the advisory service in Navarra, Spain

PA46 – Situation in direct marketing in Navarra, Spain

PA47 – Retro-innovation: Diversification of dairy products in Navarra and the Basque Country

PA48 – Adoption of variable rate precision farming technologies in north-east Scotland

PA49 – Introduction of cover crops in Colli Piacentini viticulture area (Italy) – peer-to-peer pathway

PA50 – Factors delaying co-creation and progress of a Living Lab

PA51 – Facilitation in Living Labs

PA52 – Development of renewable energy in rural areas as an alternative to traditional forms of energy

PA53 – Advisory support for agri-innovation: Application of precision farming system in Wielkopolski, Poland

PA54 – Natural resources common management in Siedlecki region, Poland

PA55 – Implementation of milking robots – changing role for advisors

PA56 – Tagetes cultivation for biological pest control

PA57 – Advisory support for non-inverse tillage as soil improvement

PA58 – Advisory challenges in being an innovative farmer in Greece: struggling for verified knowledge

PA59 – Farmers’ innovation paths: (re)introducing new crops in France and Greece

PA60 – Implementing electronic bells in sheep farming – farmers in the leading role

PA61 – Is there a relationship between types of farmers and advisory providers in the decision-making process?

PA62 – How does the transformation of advisory providers influence farmers’ decision-making (…)?

PA63 – Collective direct marketing and its impact on peer-to-peer exchange consolidation

PA64 – Enhancing ecological infrastructures in the vineyards of upper Douro valley in Portugal

PA65 – The KIS-based enhancement of ecological infrastructures strategies in the vineyards of upper Douro valley in Portugal

PA66 – Using soil moisture probes for smart irrigation in Northern Lezíria do Tejo flatlands

PA67 – How a farmer-based advisory organisation (FBO) boosted smart irrigation in Northern Lezíria do Tejo

PA68 – Challenges of direct marketing for farmers at some distance from consumers living in large cities

PA69 – The role of informal advice on innovation for sustainability

PA70 – What roles do advisory services play in the innovation decision-making in Flanders?

PA71 – Impact of agricultural advisory services on renewable energy development, Poland

PA72 – Outsourcing of farm activities

PA73 – Informal farm machinery repair networks in the mountain villages of southern Transylvania

PA74 – Supermarkets drive novel ‘direct marketing’ channels for fresh produce from small farms in Romania

PA75 – Online direct marketing channels developed by pioneering entrepreneurs (…)

PA76 – Engaging stakeholders in Living Labs

PA77 – Peer to Peer Mentoring for facilitators of innovation groups and Living Labs

PA78 – What aspects influence the farmer’s motivation to participate in a living lab in the Dutch-Belgian living lab context?

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