Rangeland Rummy – A board game to support adaptive management of rangeland-based livestock systems

Farrie, Bertrand; Jouven, Magali; Launay, Fabienne; Moreau, Jacques; Moulin, Charles‐Henri; Piquet, Mathilde; Taverne, Marie; Tchakérian, Edmond; Thénard, Vincent; Martin, Guillaume

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.08.018

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“…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). In the last example, users are challenged to explore ecological variables and processes to manage a virtual diversified agroecosystem.…”

Section: Promising Tools For Designing Diversified Farming Systems Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Duru

Thérond

Martin

et al. 2015

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Intensive agriculture has led to several drawbacks such as biodiversity loss, climate change, erosion, and pollution of air and water. A potential solution is to implement management practices that increase the level of provision of ecosystem services such as soil fertility and biological regulation. There is a lot of literature on the principles of agroecology. However, there is a gap of knowledge between agroecological principles and practical applications. Therefore, we review here agroecological and management sciences to identify two facts that explain the lack of practical applications: (1) the occurrence of high uncertainties about relations between agricultural practices, ecological processes, and ecosystem services, and (2) the site-specific character of agroecological practices required to deliver expected ecosystem services. We also show that an adaptive-management approach, focusing on planning and monitoring, can serve as a framework for developing and implementing learning tools tailored for biodiversity-based agriculture. Among the current learning tools developed by researchers, we identify two main types of emergent support tools likely to help design diversified farming systems and landscapes: (1) knowledge bases containing scientific supports and experiential knowledge and (2) model-based games. These tools have to be coupled with well-tailored field or management indicators that allow monitoring effects of practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Finally, we propose a research agenda that requires bringing together contributions from agricultural, ecological, management, and knowledge management sciences, and asserts that researchers have to take the position of "integration and implementation sciences."

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Section: Promising Tools For Designing Diversified Farming Systems Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Duru

Thérond

Martin

et al. 2015

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

443

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“…In participatory agricultural research, role differentiation was mainly associated with lead-farmers who had group leadership roles. Approaches did generally not assign differentiated roles and justify this differentiation in a positive way, with the exception of the work on participatory modeling and simulation with approaches designed to take diverging interests into account (Farrié et al 2015;Berthet et al 2018). Thinking about participation as a collective, distributed effort with differentiated roles, also in observational and experimental work, opens a new spectrum of possibilities for research design.…”

Section: Rethinking Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen science breathes new life into participatory agricultural research. A review

Gevel

Etten

Deterding

2020

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Participatory research can improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and scope of research processes, and foster social inclusion, empowerment, and sustainability. Yet despite four decades of agricultural research institutions exploring and developing methods for participatory research, it has never become mainstream in the agricultural technology development cycle. Citizen science promises an innovative approach to participation in research, using the unique facilities of new digital technologies, but its potential in agricultural research participation has not been systematically probed. To this end, we conducted a critical literature review. We found that citizen science opens up four opportunities for creatively reshaping research: (i) new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration, (ii) rethinking configurations of socio-computational systems, (iii) research on democratization of science more broadly, and (iv) new accountabilities. Citizen science also brings a fresh perspective on the barriers to institutionalizing participation in the agricultural sciences. Specifically, we show how citizen science can reconfigure cost-motivation-accountability combinations using digital tools, open up a larger conceptual space of experimentation, and stimulate new collaborations. With appropriate and persistent institutional support and investment, citizen science can therefore have a lasting impact on how agricultural science engages with farming communities and wider society, and more fully realize the promises of participation.

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“…The participatory process will make it possible to take into account complex natural and human interactions at the scale of the whole summer mountain pasture system and therefore provide a deeper integrative understanding of all actors, which is key to the practical reality of the climate adaptation process (van Kerkhoff and Lebel 2006;Tscharkert and Dietrich 2010;Duru et al 2012;Farri e et al 2015). Also, such a process has the potential to modify MountainDevelopment practitioners' perceptions of climate uncertainties and risks, which is essential to adaptation action (Abid et al 2016).…”

Section: Mountaindevelopmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Method for Diagnosing Summer Mountain Pastures' Vulnerability to Climate Change, Developed in the French Alps

Deléglise

Dodier

Garde³

et al. 2019

Mountain Research and Development

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Rangeland Rummy – A board game to support adaptive management of rangeland-based livestock systems

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

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

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

Citizen science breathes new life into participatory agricultural research. A review

A Method for Diagnosing Summer Mountain Pastures' Vulnerability to Climate Change, Developed in the French Alps

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