Download to read offline
Session 10: Creating an enabling environment for industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management
This document discusses the importance of area-wide management (AWM) for fruit fly biosecurity, emphasizing a collaborative approach between local industries and researchers. It identifies systemic problems and blocking mechanisms that hinder local capacity and knowledge diffusion, advocating for policy interventions like local training and multi-level innovation platforms. The aim is to strengthen linkages within the management system to enhance agricultural innovation and effectiveness in biosecurity efforts.
More Related Content
Similar to Session 10: Creating an enabling environment for industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management
Session 10: Creating an enabling environment for industry-driven fruit fly area-wide management
- 1. biosecurity built onscience Creating an enabling environment for fruit fly area-wide management Heleen Kruger PhD Candidate Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre
- 2. biosecurity built onscience Background - area-wide management (AWM) Promoted to local industries ‘Local industries need help to help themselves’ – AWM more than implementation of technologies Local industries need to be able to readily meet their needs Agricultural innovation systems thinking – Innovation requires co-evolving technological, social, organisational, and institutional change
- 3. biosecurity built onscience Evolution of agriculture innovation (Schut et al. 2012) Transfer of technology • 1950s – 1980s • Transfer, adoption and adoption of technologies • Top-down • Grower is adopter • Researcher is expert Farming systems • 1980s – 1990s • Contextualise research and technology • Top-down • Grower is adopter and info source • Researcher is expert Agricultural knowledge and information systems • 1990s-2000s • Build local capacity & empower farmers • Bottom-up • Grower is experimenter and expert • Researcher is capacity builder and facilitator of learning Agricultural innovation systems • 2000s onwards • Includes political and institutional dimensions • Multi-directional • Grower is partner, entrepreneur • Researchers are actors that enhance innovation capacity • Both innovation partners
- 4. biosecurity built onscience Theoretical approach – Functional analysis Functions F1. Entrepreneurial activities F2. Knowledge development F3. Knowledge diffusion F4. Guidance of search F5. Market formation F6. Mobilisation of resources F7. Creation of legitimacy From Hekkert, 2007
- 5. biosecurity built onscience Methods Interviews Grower survey Allocated findings against functions Identified systemic problems Clustered into blocking mechanisms Identified policy inter- ventions
- 6. biosecurity built onscience Blocking mechanisms Lack of local capacity Difficult task – Achieving a local shared vision is challenging – Reliance on voluntary approaches – Systems approaches require extensive procedures Local barriers – Various barriers hinder local government involvement – Many growers are risk averse
- 7. biosecurity built onscience Blocking mechanisms F1. Entrepreneurial activities F2. Knowledge development F3. Knowledge diffusion F4. Guidance of search F5. Market formation F6. Mobilisation of resources F7. Creation of legitimacy Lack of local capacity F1. Entrepreneurial activities F2. Knowledge development F3. Knowledge diffusion F4. Guidance of search
- 8. biosecurity built onscience Blocking mechanisms Weak link between local industries and broader system Knowledge diffusion to growers is weak – Generic information insufficient – Inadequate extension – Crop consultant employment varies – Trade information is not readily accessible Lack of multi-directional information flow – Lack of short feedback loops – Growers may underappreciate higher level efforts – Possible overoptimism at higher levels – “Grower voice” weak in higher level forums – Limited learning between AWM programs – No one understands the entire system, different “languages”
- 9. biosecurity built onscience Blocking mechanisms Weak link between local industries and broader system Lack of local capacity Weak link between local industries and broader system Lack of local capacity F1. Entrepreneurial activities F2. Knowledge development F3. Knowledge diffusion F5. Market formation F6. Mobilisation of resources F7. Creation of legitimacy F4. Guidance of search
- 10. biosecurity built onscience Policy intervention recommendations Offer local training Different modules Invest in local knowledge-brokers Boundary functions: – Demand articulation – Knowledge translation – Network building
- 11. biosecurity built onscience Policy intervention recommendations Multi-level innovation platforms Collaborations involving different knowledge systems Existing innovation platforms: - Local management groups - Higher level groups Need to introduce linkages throughout system to ensure co-evolution Next research step: How to strengthen linkages throughout QFly management innovation system, especially including the local level?
- 12. biosecurity built onscience Questions and acknowledgements Acknowledgements Prof. Darren Halpin, Australian National University Prof. Rolf Gerritsen, Charles Darwin University Dr. Susie Collins, DAWR Dr. Michael Cole, previously Australian Department of Agriculture Any questions? Heleen Kruger heleen.kruger@anu.edu.au