Serious games to explore uncertainty of future farms
We produced an interactive farm game for use in workshops conducted with farmers, grower group staff, advisers and researchers. The workshops aimed to explore possible consequences of combinations of future management, land-use options and climatic factors in a no-risk, virtual manner. The game workshop was conducted with 52 participants at five locations across the wheatbelt of Western Australia. Seventy-four per cent of participants considered that the workshop helped them to consider options that would be useful on their farms. While acknowledging the simplifications inherent in a game, participants considered that much of the 'game-play' reflected their real decision-making. The opportunity to hear the decision-making of others, and to observe the effects, was of particular value. These findings illustrate the potential for the game-workshop approach to explore complexity in dimension, time and space and, particularly, to identify information needs for farmers in a specific region. They also highlight the decisions that would be made on farm in the absence of constraints of time, capital and logistics.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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| Subjects: | U30 - Méthodes de recherche, C20 - Vulgarisation, P40 - Météorologie et climatologie, E11 - Économie et politique foncières, E14 - Économie et politique du développement, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/572467/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/572467/1/document_572467.pdf |
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