A5040532502- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Delphi Technique in Research
AgResearch
2006-2020
Plant & Food Research
2019
Problems in agriculture and land use are increasingly recognised as complex, uncertain, operating at multiple levels (field to global value chains) involving social, economic, institutional, technological change. This has implications for how projects navigate complexity achieve impact. However, few studies have systematically evaluated project actors engage with other configure capabilities resources across agricultural innovation systems (AIS), from the individual network, mobilise build...
Primary Innovation is a 5-year collaborative initiative demonstrating and evaluating co-innovation, systemic approach to innovation addressing complex problems, in five “innovation projects” (active case studies) different agricultural industries. In defining the elements of has emphasized nine principles that guide activity projects. To understand how useful these were guiding practice, their influence on project participants assessed reflected applied issues arose, each influenced project,...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease sizeKeywords: agricultural scienceagricultural historybiological economiesknowledge productionrural geographysocial science methodologiestransdisciplinary researchtransformative research
Approaches to accelerate innovation have become more integrated and systemic over time, such as Agricultural Innovation Systems co-innovation. Primary is a New Zealand co-innovation programme in which conceived being ‘co-produced’ by stakeholders who contribute their unique knowledge solving problem or realizing an opportunity. In co-innovation, cyclical processes of planning, doing, observing reflecting enable emerge from interactive learning among stakeholders. this article, we argue that...
The potential for monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) to enhance innovation impact in agricultural research development is receiving increasing attention. New Zealand’s AgResearch Limited Australia’s CSIRO Agriculture Food are working with their scientists support the organisations achieve greater by embedding MEL into programs projects. However, both have found it challenging systematically demonstrate value of initiatives. While there an number case studies anecdotes pointing towards...
New Zealand’s pastoral sector faces significant challenges to pest management as long-standing insecticides are deregistered. To protect their pastures, farmers need shift from reactive responses that lead poor economic outcomes pre-emptive viable in the long term. Current practices (insecticides, endophytes, biological control) for pasture insect pests were assessed perspective of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Potential impacts novel control strategies and emerging digital...
Evaluative capacity building is a critical element of weaving the action evaluation, evaluative activity, thinking, and appreciation evaluation into fabric organisations.AgResearch, Crown Research Institute for New Zealand pastoral farming sector, embarking on journey following an internal review identifying need to enable better measuring monitoring impact from science research programmes.Evaluation has not traditionally been core component programmes.However, with funders stakeholders...
The results of a study investigating the response farmers to adverse weather events are outlined. aim was identify adaptive management activities that would increase on-farm resilience. This project focused on beef/sheep farmers, dairy and horticulturalists in Northland. Participants were pragmatic about events, particularly storms. Local knowledge, previous experiences, information networks helped build highlighted range tactical decisions address immediate damage from However, strategic...
Researchers in the AgResearch deer programme are using social research to understand level of environmental awareness amongst farmers. Our aim this was issues surrounding waterway fencing farmers Otago and Southland. Both quantitative qualitative data were collected as part project. findings indicate that influenced by their specific farm context. Many defensive when explaining reasons for or against fencing. Those who did fence off waterways so practical reasons. believed it impossible...
Focused group projects engaging owners and managers of Maori farm businesses were initiated on the East Coast New Zealand. The objective was to improve productivity profitability on-farm through enhanced capability building collaboration. Five evaluated. Critical success factors learning groups identified. Leadership, communication, organisation commitment required from project participants facilitators. Collaborative interactive processes built knowledge confidence managers. Building trust...
An evaluation of the Biocontrol Information Resource for ERMA New Zealand Applicants (BIREA http//wwwb3nzorg/birea) website was undertaken BIREA aims to assist applicants wishing introduce biocontrol agents submit a welldeveloped and informed application The also has potential educating overseas practitioners general public on biological control safety had received no new applications import or release since went live in April 2007 so evaluated by interviewing past key stakeholders In...