Workshop "ICT to help on participatory approaches for the agroecological transition of agriculture"

Call for papers

Workshop "ICT to help on participatory approaches for the agroecological 
transition of agriculture"
12th European IFSA Symposium, Harper Adams University, UK, from Tuesday 
12 - Friday 15 July 2016.
organized by the International Farming Systems Association (IFAS), 
Europe group

http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/events/ifsa-conference/workshops.cfm
http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/events/ifsa-conference/sub-theme.cfm?id=22

Workshop convenors:

Jacques-Eric Bergez, INRA, Toulouse, France, jebergez@toulouse.inra.fr
Vincent Soulignac, IRSTEA, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 
vincent.soulignac@irstea.fr
Francois Pinet, IRSTEA, Clermont-Ferrand, France, francois.pinet@irstea.fr
Julie Gobert, UTT, France, julie.gobert@utt.fr

Description:

Transition to agroecology is quite often seen as a shift to more 
knowledge-intensive farming practices and to enlarge management issues 
from farm to territory. Are ICT aiming at gathering, sharing, ordering 
or even creating information and knowledge an efficient resource to help 
on agroecology transition of agriculture?

Agroecological transition of agriculture requires implementing new 
farming practices (from low-diversity- to high-diversity-based), 
developing new local social networks either for farmers community to 
share knowledge and experience or selling agricultural products (local 
markets). Participatory approaches are particularly well suited to 
support stakeholders in designing and implementing this transition. ICT 
may facilitate the construction of a agroecological transition at local 
level:

- Store and record information: exchanges and discussions during 
workshops allowing traceability of exchanges and choices, information 
and data used during the workshops; thematic maps (eg farming systems 
and environmental issues within the territory), directory of innovative 
farmers, discussion forums or territory slides; how to store design 
elements proposed by actors with respect of their possible conflictual 
views on the knowledge and on the territory,
- Show and visualize data: present and future vision of the territory, 
interactively views of the content of knowledge bases, visualization of 
the dynamics and exchange networks at workshops, modeling choices, 
system analysis dashboards, innovative visualization tools such as 3D 
telescope to have the feeling of being on the ground...
- Structure and equip participatory processes: access to participatory 
methods, toolkits to facilitate discussions during participative 
workshops for modeling and scripting (repositories, intermediate 
objects, potential physical exchanges between players, tools 
diagnostics, agricultural or regional projects, computer graphics 
simulations, method of socio-economic scenarios of changes), educational 
materials, modalities and achievements of a participatory workshop, 
serious games based on low- and high-diversity based agroecologisation, 
virtual meetings, etc.
- Share and spread knowledge: internally at workshops or broader, 
synchronously or asynchronously, direct exchanges between innovators, 
popularize the results of observatories
- Create new knowledge: from mixing the diverse information sources, 
experimental knowledge, scientific knowledge, knowledge from farmers, we 
explore how participatory methods can be used 1) with knowledge 
formalization techniques (ontologies, unified modelling language, etc.) 
or 2) with semi-formal techniques (multi-viewpoints knowledge 
organisation systems, social semantic web, federated Wiki)

The workshop aims at debating the technical possibilities and how they 
are used by researchers and stakeholders during participatory meetings.
Depending on the number of papers, we will focus on a set of original 
proposals followed by subthemes discussion. A general discussion will 
aim at drawing innovative points of view.


Abstract and paper submission:

Abstract and paper submission procedure can be found here: 
http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/events/ifsa-conference/workshops.cfm
Click on the theme "4. Emergence and application of new technologies" to 
obtain further details on the Workshop "4.3 ICT to help on participatory 
approaches for the agroecological transition of agriculture"

Please complete the template here 
"www.harper-adams.ac.uk/events/ifsa-conference/files/AbstractTemplate_IFSA_2016.docx" 
fully and submit to IFSA2016@harper-adams.ac.uk. The closing date for 
submission of abstracts is Monday 21 December 2015. If accepted, you 
will be asked to submit the full version of the paper by 29 February 
2016 and attend the workshop session at the conference. Please contact 
workshop convenors if you have any questions or concerns relating to 
workshop sessions. If you have any other issues please contact 
IFSA2016@harper-adams.ac.uk


-- 
Francois Pinet
Directeur de Recherche
Irstea, Campus des Cézeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, France
http://www.irstea.fr/pinet

Received on Friday, 27 November 2015 14:41:47 UTC