Welche Herausforderung/Problem wurde angesprochen??
Leitrim is a very rural part of Ireland with lots of small drystock farms who are elderly and /or working off farm. They traditionally farm sheep and beef cows at low stocking rates. The land is relatively poor in quality and suffers from high rainfall, so short grazing season and longer winters. As a consequence big areas of the farmland have been planted over the last 40 years with commercial forestry and this has impacted on the viability and sustainably of rural communities. Advisors and farmers have improved the quality and productivity of the remaining drystock farms but are keen to adopt new enterprises or systems that are more economically viable and fit better with elderly or part farm operators. One advisor (Tom Coll) has worked with these farmers and helped them to set up a contract rearing service group. This group is facilitated by the advisor who helps them to take in young calves form larger dairy farms and rear them to an agreed age where they are taken back to their farm of origin. There were many reservations a first by the farmers, but as a group the farmers worked with the advisor and others to ensure that the service was of high quality and offered a fair and valued option to both the dairy farmer and the contract rearing farm. The group works as a discussion group and promotes its service through the advisory service network. Contract rearing groups have been setup by other advisors in other regions and are supported by a wider pool of Teagasc research and specialist staff. https://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2020/contract-heifer-rearing.php
Was sind die Erfolgsfaktoren bei der Lösung des Problems?
Interest of the farmers in changing
Trust in the advisor
Group peer to peer support
Support from the wider advisory and research community
Was waren die Hauptherausforderungen während des Innovationsprozesses?
At this stage the demand for the service from dairy farms is not growing fast enough.
Welche Rolle spielt der Berater bzw. die Beratungsdienstleistung im Praxisfall??
Wissensbewusstsein und Austausch, Beratung, Beratung und Backtoping mit der Lösung komplexer Probleme, während des Innovationsprozesses und basierend auf den Anforderungen der Akteure und der Co-Konstruktion von Lösungen zur Verfügung gestellt werden, Fordern Artikulation, Damit den Akteuren Zugang zu neuen Ideen haben können, ihre Bedürfnisse identifizieren, Definieren Sie ihre Ziele und drücken Sie anderen Akteuren klare Forderungen aus, Networking -Erleichterung und Maklerage, Um Netzwerke zu organisieren oder zu stärken, Verbessern Sie die Beziehungen zwischen wichtigen Akteuren und um Dienste auszurichten, um sich gegenseitig ergänzen zu können, Capacity building, aimed at increasing innovation actors’ capacities in order to play their roles in the innovation process, Erleichterung des Zugangs zu neuen Netzwerken und Schauspielern, Scaling up the innovation to increase the uptake by a broader group
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Tom Coll
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