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The role of the professions in science-based farming
and land management
Jeremy Phillipson, Amy Proctor and Philip Lowe
A philosophy of knowledge exchange
Knowledge producers
Knowledge users
Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge producers
Knowledge users
A philosophy of knowledge exchange
Knowledge Exchange
• stakeholders engaged throughout as active partners in research
• reciprocal exchange between scientists and stakeholders
• knowledge exchange through people exchange and informal networks
• bringing social consideration to bear on technical research
A philosophy of knowledge exchange
combined socio-technical innovation
The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries?
Farmers Weekly 12 July 2011 “Teamwork reaps benefits on beef finishing unit”
The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries?
RegulatoryKnowledge
Formal ProfessionalKnowledge
FIELD-BASED PROFESSIONALS
Formal Scientific
Knowledge
LANDMANAGER
The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries?
The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Intermediaries?
“I think I have a very important role in converting what the scientists
have done and come up with into a format that my farm clients can use
and understand” (Veterinarian)
“I think the skill of empathy and the skill of being able to explain your technical knowledge in ways that the farmer can understand is the
most important thing really. Ecology can get very, very technical and
very science, if you like, so it's being able to translate that into sort of
sensible, understandable information really for the farmer”
(Ecologist)
“You always make a point of reading certain technical journals to see what the latest things are
and you try and remember what’s happened. You will pick up some good ideas and you will try and implement them …. You don’t
realise you’re necessarily using these things, but it’s part of your personal knowledge bank and,
therefore, it comes into play. You think, ‘Oh yeah, well, that’s
something that’s worth applying” (Land agent)
ExperientialKnowledge
ExperimentalKnowledge
RegulatoryKnowledge
Formal ProfessionalKnowledge
FIELD-BASED PROFESSIONALS
Formal Scientific
Knowledge
LANDMANAGER
The Advisory Professions as Knowledge Producers?
Research and agriculture = innovative modern food production
The Advisory Professions as Agents for Socio-Technical Innovation?
Getting a glimpse of future precision farming techFarmers Weekly 05 November 2009
• How are public and private research agendas and strategies responding to the needs of the agriculture and land advisory professions?
• What knowledge exchange approaches and mechanisms have been adopted and how could they be improved?
Landbridge and Today’s Workshop