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Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation: digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway
Agronomy for sustainable development, Vol.45(2), 18
2025
Abstract
This virtual issue reports on the use of digital technologies in On-Farm Experimentation (OFE) in varied farming systems across the world. The authors investigated diverse questions across contrasted environments and scientific domains, with methodologies that included review, empirical studies, interviews, and reflexive accounts. The contributions thus showcase the multiplicity of research directions that are relevant to OFE. This includes addressing the two intertwined types of research objects in OFE: the farmers’ questions (how to improve management) and the methodologies required to address these (how to improve research through OFE)—with the notable support of digital tools. The issue includes a systematic review exploring OFE practices and farmer-researcher relationships as reported in the scientific literature; a meta-analysis comparing experimental scales in the USA; reflexive analyzes on a feed assessment tool and a tree crop decision support system rooted in OFE that are connecting farmers and researchers in Africa; a retrospective on a large CGIAR program combining citizen sciences and OFE; the use of video recordings and work analysis to characterize farmers’ knowledge in French vineyards; and in the same sector in Australia, two accounts of the use of digital tools in spatially explicit OFE: one an investigation into farmers’ and consultants’ perceptions, the other a retrospective on the roles of precision agriculture. Findings from these examples validate the use of varied digital tools to scale the design, implementation, and learning stages of OFE processes. These include how to better harness and bridge the knowledge of farmers, researchers and other parties, examples of data management and analytics, the improved interpretation of results, and capitalizing on experiences. The international conference this issue was part of also led to acknowledgement of a lack of policy linkages, required to scale OFE endeavors by incentivizing institutional change toward more farmer-centric research practices and responsible digital deployment.
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- Title
- Farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation: digital tools for a scalable transformative pathway
- Authors/Creators
- Myrtille Lacoste - Curtin UniversityVéronique Bellon-Maurel - Institut Agro MontpellierIsabelle Piot-Lepetit - L'Institut AgroSimon Cook - Centre for Digital Agriculture, Curtin University, Centre for Digital Agriculture, Murdoch UniversityNicolas Tremblay - Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development CentreLouis Longchamps - Cornell UniversityMatthew McNeeJames Taylor - Institut Agro MontpellierJulie Ingram - University of GloucestershireIvan Adolwa - Plant (United States)Andrew Hall - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Publication Details
- Agronomy for sustainable development, Vol.45(2), 18
- Publisher
- Springer Paris
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- ANR-16-CONV-0004 / INRAE-#DigitAg Curtin University
- Identifiers
- 991005753931407891
- Copyright
- © Crown 2025
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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