Gaming for smallholder participation in the design of more sustainable agricultural landscapes

A multiscale gaming approach to understand farmer’s decision making in the boom of maize cultivation in Laos

“…Metagame represents the findings from the local level in a generalized form and can be validated in a serious game workshop with stakeholders. (Speelman et al 2014), but also to generate and test hypotheses on land-use decision making (Anderies et al 2011, García-Barrios et al 2015. The serious games in this study were analogue, simplified versions of a land-use situation represented by tactile objects, rules, and roles.…”

How to implement biodiversity-based agriculture to enhance ecosystem services: a review

“…Material and computer items are used either simultaneously or successively to collectively design and assess alternative farming systems or landscapes. In such approaches, boundary objects and especially computer models are gaining increasing importance as learning and negotiation-support tools (Barreteau et al 2010;Speelman et al 2014). Applications of such game-based approaches are now well developed, for example, for crop and grassland allocation to reduce erosion at the landscape level (Souchère et al 2010), or to design and assess alternative land use and livestock management in livestock systems given farmers' objectives, e.g., transition to organic farming Farrié et al 2015), or to study ecological interactions (facilitation and competition) in a multispecies system to learn how it can be self-organized (Speelman and García-Barrios 2010).…”

Sustaining rural livelihoods through an integrated landscape approach

“…Food security which in turn can advise decision-making (Perrotton et al, 2017;Purnomo et al, 2009;Röttgers, 2016;Salvini et al, 2016;Speelman et al, 2014;.…”