ABSTRACT

Purpose

Agricultural innovation implies sharing information between researchers and farmers. Acknowledging the value of the other partner’s knowledge is a preliminary step to facilitate agricultural interactive models. Traditionally, researchers’ knowledges have been dominant, and farmers’ knowledges have been underestimated. A large number of innovation papers pay attention to farmers’ attitudes, interests, perceptions, barriers or drivers to change their practices. However, there is not so much information about researchers’ point of view. The present paper analyses researchers’ perceptions about farmers’ knowledges and information sources.

Design

It is based on a survey of 156 agricultural researchers mostly from public institutions in Spain.

Methodology/approach

Descriptive statistics and principal component analysis (PCA) focused on researchers’ perceptions of farmers’ knowledges and information sources.

Findings

This paper finds that there are two distinct profiles of researchers according to their perceptions on the relevance of knowledges and information sources for farmers. However, both profiles shared the view of ‘own experience’ as a highly relevant source for farmers’ knowledges.

Practical implications

It advises how to promote knowledge sharing according to different researchers’ perceptions of farmers’ knowledges and information sources.

Theoretical implications

This paper classifies agricultural researchers according to their perceptions of farmers’ knowledges and information sources. This classification enriches the discussion about agricultural interactive knowledge models.

Originality/value

This paper pays attention to researchers’ perceptions of farmers’ knowledges and information sources. It particularly focuses on multi-actor approaches and the integration of farmers’ and researchers’ knowledges.

中文翻译：

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农业互动知识模型：研究人员对西班牙农民知识和信息来源的看法

摘要

目的

农业创新意味着研究人员和农民之间共享信息。承认其他合作伙伴知识的价值是促进农业互动模型的初步步骤。传统上，研究人员的知识占主导地位，农民的知识被低估了。大量的创新论文关注农民的态度、兴趣、观念、障碍或驱动因素以改变他们的做法。然而，关于研究人员观点的信息并不多。本文分析了研究人员对农民知识和信息来源的看法。

设计

它基于对 156 名主要来自西班牙公共机构的农业研究人员的调查。

方法论/方法

描述性统计和主成分分析 (PCA) 侧重于研究人员对农民知识和信息来源的看法。

发现

本文发现，根据研究人员对知识和信息来源与农民的相关性的看法，有两种截然不同的情况。然而，这两个概况都认为“自己的经验”是农民知识的高度相关来源。

实际影响

它建议如何根据不同研究人员对农民知识和信息来源的看法促进知识共享。

理论意义

本文根据农业研究人员对农民知识和信息来源的看法对他们进行分类。这种分类丰富了对农业交互知识模型的讨论。

原创性/价值

本文关注研究人员对农民知识和信息来源的看法。它特别关注多参与者方法以及农民和研究人员知识的整合。