Since September 2015, 57 innovation cases have been visited and analysed at 12 Cross Visits across Europe. The new synthesis report documents these cases and serves, to the curious mind, as a catalogue of all the cases examined in the AgriSpin project.

Out of a total of 88 innovation cases, 57 cases were selected for presentation and analysis at the 12 Cross Visits that have been conducted during the course of a year, starting in September of 2015 and ending in September of this year.

Guidelines that Informed the Selection

It follows from this statistic that 31 of the originally selected cases did not make the cut. The guidelines that informed the selection of the final innovation cases were informed by the notion that innovations are only successful when they have reached a broader acceptance, when they are disseminated and adopted within a social system such as rural communities, peer groups and regional networks. Therefore, the innovation cases were accepted based on the conditions that:

  • the cases portrayed a multi-actor approach/component (< 3 different actors) with at least one farmer / farmer organisation
  • the cases had a minimum history and implementation by the time of the Cross visit
  • the cases had an innovation support component and
  • the cases had a clear “innovation angle”.

Now, the task of analyzing the cases remains. The analysis process is well under way and the results will be disseminated on the AgriSpin website and social media platform.

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Check out the “Synthesis report on selected and documented innovation cases for Cross Visits“.

The methodological guide which systematically guided the case identification and documentation process was based on a conceptual framework.

Also peruse the conceptual framework and the methodological guide of the AgriSpin project.