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Integrated assessment of farming systemsCategorising Diversity, Simulating
Trade-offs, Communicating Results
(part 1; part 2 during the Field Day)
Program 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm, Plaza 4
Introduction: Walter Rossing (5’) Categorising farm diversity: Santiago
Lopez-Ridaura (15’) Simulating trade-offs: Daniel
Rodriguez (15’) Communicating results for innovation:
Santiago Dogliotti (15’) Where to from here: discussion (40’) Rapporteur Argyris Kanellopoulos
Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011
Workshop objectives
To discuss and explore Farm typologies to categorize farms and their
performance (‘Categorizing farm diversity’) Models that mimic farms to generate new
actionable information (‘Simulating trade-offs’) Ways in which model results are used to
contribute to co-innovation (‘Communicating results for innovation’)
Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011
Categorizing Diversity
Are typologies based on salient farm characteristics?
Expert knowledge and participatory rankings versus formal multivariate methods?
Use of typologies in scaling up and scaling out?Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems
Brisbane 27 September 2011
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1969-1981
Van der Ploeg et at. 2009, JEM
Simulating Trade-offs
Results and purposes: scenarios, trade-offs, blueprints?
System specification and saliency? Sense and nonsense of validation?
Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011
Objective 1
Obje
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Scenario studies Pareto based explorationOptimization
Area of possible solutions
Calculated solutions in white
Communicating Results
Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011
Communicating results or co-construction? Do different audiences require different
methods? Consequences for the way we design projects?
Propositions to kick you off into the discussion: Farm models are a boundary object: they help us to understand farmer behaviour and they help farmers to see consequences of possible actions
In decision making we all are satisficers rather than optimisers: so why all this emphasis on optimization?
The purpose determines not only the model but also the social process that a project should develop
Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011
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