How to Assess Agricultural Innovation Systems in a Transformation Perspective: A Delphi Consensus Study

Autor/inn/en	Toillier, Aurélie; Mathé, Syndhia; Saley Moussa, Abdoulaye; Faure, Guy
Titel	How to Assess Agricultural Innovation Systems in a Transformation Perspective: A Delphi Consensus Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 28 (2022) 2, S.163-185 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Toillier, Aurélie) ORCID (Faure, Guy)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1389-224X
DOI	10.1080/1389224X.2021.1953548
Schlagwörter	Agriculture; Innovation; Evaluation Methods; Delphi Technique; Change; World Views; Global Approach; Foreign Countries; Change Strategies; Failure; Success; Barriers; Group Unity; International Cooperation; International Organizations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landwirtschaft; Delphi-Methode; Wandel; World view; Weltanschauung; Globales Denken; Ausland; Lösungsstrategie; Erfolg; Gruppenidentität; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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