Paper presented at the 52nd CFCS Annual Meeting, Guadeloupe, July 10-16, 2016 - - -
Work according to the principles of the agroecology, including the mixed farming and breeding systems, the associations of cultures and the cultural rotations. Develop the demand and the sensibility of the consumers: question of outlets for the agricultural and foodprocessing production sector, in connection with the change of food practices and the health of the populations. Recognition of the real potential of the practices and the traditional know-how, and difficulties for the ad hoc development of production sectors (in particular for the protein resources), in sync with the constraints inherent to the small territories
2. Concerning the question of the governance of the devices of innovation: - How to develop the notion of networks on small territories and more particularly places dedicated in exchanges between actors? build a common link of meeting and writing between the actors. - Necessity of a multi-actors partnerships between the production and the processing sector (participative governance: professionals, representatives of the companies, Farmers’ association, technical institutes, RITA, Research institutes, investors, political decision-makers) in connection with experimental farmers. - Required to impulse mixed public and private financing - Need to improve the advisory process: scientific, technical, and financial support for the technological and organizational innovation at the scale of the farm. - Better communicate by the mean of all the media / press, and the organization of pragmatic debates, according to three topics: i) agronomy, soil, plant and animal productions, ii) health and human food supply, iii) health and animal feed. The Farmers Forum allowed identifying several points of vigilance - - The difference which still remains between the perception of the needs of the farmers by the research vs. the expectation which have the farmers towards research institutions, and which are not registered as priorities with regard to the local context, for example fights against the cassava ant (Acromyrmex octospinosus), supply of local seeds of traditional or orphan products. Tracks are proposed to the RITA for a more regular updating of the expectations of the producers. - The presentation on the agroecological transition and living labs aroused some remarks of the professionals on their academic side, insufficiently documented by concrete examples, what not sufficiently deprives their intrinsic interest. It hindered a little the capacity of the producers to fall on precluded living labs during the workshop of the afternoon, in particular on the notion of collaborative space on the open innovation. - The focus on the protein resources, initially prioritized in the OCABA project, made debate, and the producers pronounced unanimously for a wider consideration of the biodiversity of the tropical agroresources. - The initial schedule was considered slightly too ambitious, - No concrete proposal in favour of the agrotransformation, while it is about a major stake for the development of our local sectors, in particular for the protein resources. The key point of the workshop was to put in situation the professionals and the participants of CFCS on the major theme of the innovation. It is the first local initiative on the development of the concept of living lab in agriculture. Globally this forum opens several interesting working tracks: - The sector testimony allowed reminding that there are several examples of structuring devices for the innovation which work and which could gain to be better valued in living labs to come. - In the light of the various presented initiatives, RITA or quite different structuring device for innovation could open gradually to establish a real Caribbean network of innovation. - The workshop was an opportunity for the workgroup to appropriate of the concept of living laboratory, in connection with challenges regarding transfer and innovation; it was also one constructive stage around the consolidation of the reliable plan of the continuum research-innovation-impact in agriculture, in particular for the innovation pole SynergÎle in its approach of opening to the agricultural world. It constitutes besides an excellent prerequisite in the projections to come within the framework of the project OCABA. The perspectives converge on the preservation of a local animation on the approached subjects, aiming in particular to fill the unsatisfied expectations during the forum, namely: - Those concerning living labs: plan a meeting in situation around the living lab of Gourbeyre followed by a debate to concretize better the concept; - The prioritization of agroresources for the strengthening of the food safety; - A debate on the food stakes and the development of the bioeconomy in the Caribbean So, we plan a workshop on the return of CFCS at the beginning of 2017, and more particularly of the farmers forum to the agricultural sector, enriched by the evolutions concerning the OCABA project.
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