Practice Abstract - Research and innovation

Efficiency of TNs: production of outputs

Producing materials to provide farmers with insights aimed at improving sustainability should consider the number of end-users reached and the cost of the materials produced.



TNs produce around 8 different types of materials (mostly practice abstracts, factsheets, press releases, research papers, reviews, technical articles, handbooks, reports and guides). TN partnerships considered the production of guides as a very effort-demanding activity (due to the production of a long and illustrated document) followed by the practice abstracts (due to the large number of Practice Abstracts that are produced), videos and factsheets (due to the need of several experts to produce it). On the contrary, communication (press releases and podcasts) is the activity with less effort, something that should change if the sustainable agriculture is seen as an activity that should modify the consumer patterns and therefore the knowledge that consumers have about sustainability.



When a farmer challenge is proposed, the innovation development as a written or audiovisual output created to overcome the challenge is usually subject to limiting factors. Lack of time is the most limiting factor, followed by lack of information, lack of budget among others (existing tools, time for translation, qualified technology and product, farmers fatigue when interviewed). The lack of translated materials to languages other than English is declared as a huge barrier to spread the

knowledge.



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https://euraknos.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/production/deliverables/Ex…

Source Project
EURAKNOS
Ongoing | 2019-2021
Main funding source
Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
Geographical location
Belgium
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