Integrated assessment of farming systemsCategorising Diversity, Simulating

Trade-offs, Communicating Results

(part 1; part 2 during the Field Day)

Program 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm, Plaza 4

Introduction: Walter Rossing (5’) Categorising farm diversity: Santiago

Lopez-Ridaura (15’) Simulating trade-offs: Daniel

Rodriguez (15’) Communicating results for innovation:

Santiago Dogliotti (15’) Where to from here: discussion (40’) Rapporteur Argyris Kanellopoulos

Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011

Workshop objectives

To discuss and explore Farm typologies to categorize farms and their

performance (‘Categorizing farm diversity’) Models that mimic farms to generate new

actionable information (‘Simulating trade-offs’) Ways in which model results are used to

contribute to co-innovation (‘Communicating results for innovation’)

Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011

Categorizing Diversity

Are typologies based on salient farm characteristics?

Expert knowledge and participatory rankings versus formal multivariate methods?

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1969-1981

Van der Ploeg et at. 2009, JEM

Simulating Trade-offs

Results and purposes: scenarios, trade-offs, blueprints?

System specification and saliency? Sense and nonsense of validation?

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Objective 1

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Scenario studies Pareto based explorationOptimization

Area of possible solutions

Calculated solutions in white

Communicating Results

Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011

Communicating results or co-construction? Do different audiences require different

methods? Consequences for the way we design projects?

Propositions to kick you off into the discussion: Farm models are a boundary object: they help us to understand farmer behaviour and they help farmers to see consequences of possible actions

In decision making we all are satisficers rather than optimisers: so why all this emphasis on optimization?

The purpose determines not only the model but also the social process that a project should develop

Workshop Integrated Assessment of Farming Systems Brisbane 27 September 2011