Digital agency: Empowering farmers to co-create knowledge on agroecology practices
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- Digital tools are an increasingly common approach to providing agricultural advisories, yet often many farmers do not participate in digital knowledge systems.
- Conventional approaches for analyzing digital inclusion focus on internet access, digital literacy, and benefit inequalities, and overlook agroecology values such as co-creation of knowledge, agency, and empowerment.
- Co-creation of knowledge is a continuous process in which those participating need to have real influence. If not, the power stays with the technology developers.
- Combining knowledge that is co-created by many diverse people and data and information from digital tools leads to responsible hybrid collective intelligence.
- Features of digital tools that support co-creation of knowledge, digital agency, and scaling of agroecology practices include that they enable knowledge integration, two-way communication, inclusive access, and responsible use.
- A step-wise approach is needed to develop digital resources that enable farmers’ digital agency and support the scaling of agroecological practices.
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livestock, climate change mitigation, climate change, climate resilience, rice, climate change adaptation, agroecology, smallholders, digital agriculture, social inclusion, digital extension tools, digital technology, beef, sustainability, digital divide, cattle, digital innovation