How to assess agricultural innovation systems in a transformation perspective: A Delphi consensus study
Purpose: This article explores to what extent a Delphi consensus study can help in designing a framework for assessing agricultural innovation systems (AIS), and this in a perspective of transformation of these systems in a diversity of countries. Approach: First, we reviewed the diversity of existing assessment methodologies in terms of their assessment rationales and associated epistemological and methodological debates. Second, we facilitated a process of framework design through an adapted group-based Delphi technique that we developed, based on an expert dialogue format with an initial online survey and six rounds of enriched controlled feedback. Findings: The adapted Delphi process appears to be effective since experts reached a consensus on a capacity-oriented assessment model with standardized and flexible components. Dissenting views remained but were suggested as a basis for further research, with a focus on the nature and use of high-level indicators and on ways facilitating the use of evidence by decision-makers in a capacity development perspective. Several factors that triggered and hindered consensus building during the Delphi process were detected. Practical implications: A number of lessons were drawn to enhance participation and consensus in further Delphi studies applied to framework design. Theoretical implications: Our study underscores the different worldviews on transformation and assessment of AIS. It opens the way for the use of group-based Delphi studies to initiate the co-production of knowledge on AIS science at the international level. Originality: The value of Delphi studies in addressing framework design issues has been little explored so far.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | U30 - Méthodes de recherche, F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture, systèmes d'innovation agricole, évaluation, technique d'évaluation, aide à la décision, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_19c25d71, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330990, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29775, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_36897, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/599043/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/599043/7/599043.pdf |
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