Building a culture of impact in an international agricultural research organization: Process and reflective learning

Blundo‐Canto, Genowefa; Triomphe, Bernard; Faure, Guy; Barret, Danielle; Romemont, Aurelle De; Hainzelin, Étienne

doi:10.1093/reseval/rvy033

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“…The trajectories open to them, however, are determined by the actions of numerous stakeholders along diverse impact pathways. There remains an urgent need for these diverse stakeholders to recognise explicitly their respective roles and responsibilities by building shared visions and systemic theories of change (Douthwaite et al 2017;Blundo-Canto et al 2018). This includes researchers recognising they have a key role to play and should be held accountable for the delivery of "outputs" (the sphere of control, Figure 1).…”

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“…As agricultural researchers, with direct knowledge of the workings of organisations responsible for delivering the Green Revolution, we can provide insights into the roles, legitimacy and modus operandi of different stakeholders in these networks. This is crucial to allow for more holistic inter-disciplinary research (Paasche and Osterblom 2019) and to have greater transparency about what agricultural research can and cannot realistically achieve with respect to leveraging development changes (Blundo-Canto et al 2018;Faure et al 2018).…”

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Sustainable agriculture for health and prosperity: stakeholders’ roles, legitimacy and modus operandi

Hellin¹,

Balié²,

Fisher³

et al. 2020

Development in Practice

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Food systems need to focus more on health, prosperity, and environmental sustainability. This requires changes in what, where, how and by whom food is produced, marketed, and consumed. Interdisciplinary research and trans-disciplinary collaboration are needed. Stakeholders need to agree on their respective roles, values, responsibilities and modus operandi so that research better responds to real-world challenges and opportunities. This viewpoint argues that this is especially the case in the Global South post Covid-19. Without these changes, there will continue to be unrealistic expectations of impact from agricultural research, and disappointment when these are not realised.

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Sustainable agriculture for health and prosperity: stakeholders’ roles, legitimacy and modus operandi

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Fisher³

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“…También, atendiendo a la procedencia geográfica de las métricas alternativas de este estudio, queda de manifiesto un sesgo importante de las mismas, en común con los datos bibliométrico tradicionales, a saber el predominio de los países anglosajones a la hora de destacar rasgos interesantes de la investigación, en este caso agraria y sobre aceite de oliva. Fomentar la inclusión de valores, como la sostenibilidad, el interés por el medioambiente y el desarrollo, supone posiblemente la asunción de nuevos roles por parte del personal investigador y las instituciones de investigación, como sugieren Faure, Barret, Blundo-Canto, et al (2018) y Blundo-Canto, Triomphe, Faure et al (2019). Según concluyen Pérez-Rodríguez, González-Pedraz, y Alonso Berrocal, tras analizar la actividad científica española en Twitter, en la actualidad esta se debe de manera destacada a la iniciativa de científicos individuales más que al trabajo de equipos de comunicación especializados.…”

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“…Según concluyen Pérez-Rodríguez, González-Pedraz, y Alonso Berrocal, tras analizar la actividad científica española en Twitter, en la actualidad esta se debe de manera destacada a la iniciativa de científicos individuales más que al trabajo de equipos de comunicación especializados. Si Blundo-Canto, Triomphe, Faure et al (2019) promueven nuevos procesos como la transferencia participativa de conocimiento y tecnología o el co-diseño de la innovación, y proponen una diversificación de los roles del personal investigador en una perspectiva transdisciplinaria, una mayor presencia de investigadores e instituciones de investigación en los medios sociales también podría contribuir a moldear la opinión pública.…”

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Atención en los medios sociales de la investigación sobre aceite de oliva: opinión pública e investigación

Montesi

Bajón

2020

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La necesidad de medir el impacto social de la investigación ha planteado diferentes formas de evaluación, y en agricultura se habla de impact pathways, como herramientas que permiten reflejar el proceso sistémico de la innovación, así como los factores sociales y la contribución de diferentes actores en el mismo. Sin embargo, la multiplicidad y diversidad de actores potencialmente influyentes en los procesos de innovación plantea dificultades de participación para incluirlos en los procesos de evaluación de la investigación agraria. Este estudio propone las métricas alternativas o altmétricas, es decir, relativas a la atención que la literatura científica genera en los medios sociales, como una forma para introducir en los procesos de evaluación la opinión pública. Los resultados apuntan a que la opinión pública percibe la investigación sobre aceite de oliva como más significativa cuando es interdisciplinaria.

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“…In 2010, the Agricultural Research Center for International Development (hereafter Cirad) launched an institutional project called: “Impact of research in the South” (ImpresS) and embarked on a reflective analysis of how its research actions contribute to these processes. The objective was to generate knowledge on the role of research actions, improve scientific and research partnership planning, and ultimately foster a culture of impact within the institution (Blundo‐Canto et al., 2019).…”

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Using a Participatory Theory Driven Evaluation Approach to Identify Causal Mechanisms in Innovation Processes

Blundo‐Canto

Devaux‐Spatarakis²,

Mathé

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Applied agricultural research institutes play different roles in complex agricultural innovation processes, contributing to them with other actors. To foster learning and usable knowledge on how research actions influence such lasting innovation processes, there is a need to identify the causal mechanisms linking these actions and the effects of the changes they enable. A participatory, theory‐driven, ex‐post evaluation method, ImpresS, was developed by the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (Cirad). ImpresS reconstructs the innovation history and its impact pathway by analyzing behavioral mechanisms linked to stakeholders' individual reactions and responses, and underlying process mechanisms at a group level. ImpresS relies on iterative updating and refinement and on triangulating data sources and collection methods to ensure internal validity and to increase credibility by enabling different actors to express their viewpoints. Drawing on an in‐depth case study, we discuss how ImpresS makes it possible to draw robust conclusions on causal mechanisms while posing challenges linked to the group dynamics and power imbalances commonly encountered in participatory methods. As demonstrated by the case study, ImpresS generates policy‐relevant knowledge for future research projects. It also demonstrates how research actions can help coconstruct lasting dynamics that can survive fluctuating institutional support. Distinguishing between behavioral and process mechanisms benefits knowledge use as it makes it possible to disentangle the conditions that trigger changes in a given context while generating research questions concerning the external validity of mechanism hypotheses.

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Building a culture of impact in an international agricultural research organization: Process and reflective learning

Cited by 31 publications

References 34 publications

Sustainable agriculture for health and prosperity: stakeholders’ roles, legitimacy and modus operandi

Sustainable agriculture for health and prosperity: stakeholders’ roles, legitimacy and modus operandi

Atención en los medios sociales de la investigación sobre aceite de oliva: opinión pública e investigación

Using a Participatory Theory Driven Evaluation Approach to Identify Causal Mechanisms in Innovation Processes

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