@inproceedings{BrucknerSchulzAthmannetal.2023, author = {Bruckner, August and Schulz, H and Athmann, M and Bloch, Ralf}, title = {Der Netzwerkversuch: Ein Ansatz f{\"u}r die Praxisforschung?}, series = {One Step Ahead - einen Schritt voraus! : Beitr{\"a}ge zur 16. Wissenschaftstagung {\"O}kologischer Landbau : Frick, 7. bis 10. M{\"a}rz 2023}, booktitle = {One Step Ahead - einen Schritt voraus! : Beitr{\"a}ge zur 16. Wissenschaftstagung {\"O}kologischer Landbau : Frick, 7. bis 10. M{\"a}rz 2023}, editor = {Bibic, Vanessa and Schmidtke, Knut}, publisher = {Verlag Dr. K{\"o}ster}, isbn = {978-3-96831-055-8}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-7172}, pages = {790 -- 791}, year = {2023}, language = {de} } @inproceedings{DoeringViewegerKlingetal.2021, author = {D{\"o}ring, Thomas Felix and Vieweger, Anja and Kling, Charlotte and Bruckner, August and Stumm, Christoph and Bloch, Ralf}, title = {The three freedoms required by transformative agricultural research}, series = {Landscape 2021 Diversity for sustainable and resilient agriculture, Online conference, 20.-22.09.2021}, booktitle = {Landscape 2021 Diversity for sustainable and resilient agriculture, Online conference, 20.-22.09.2021}, editor = {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF),}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-7680}, pages = {48}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Societies' calls for addressing the urgent problems of climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental crises are becoming ever louder. Responding to this, and to the growing severity of global threats to agricultural and food systems, national and international research funders are increasingly demanding that funded projects achieve real-world transformation of farming systems towards true sustainability and resilience. This development is not only a new funding opportunity for researchers. Because separating the roles of knowledge generation and knowledge exchange with practice will often fail to achieve the necessary transformation, (at least some) researchers will need to engage in this transdisciplinary process of transformative agricultural research. As a consequence, the roles of these researchers need to shift towards stronger integration in farming practice, and deeper exchange with practitioners, adding a new key role to teaching and research. We argue that meeting the goals of the mission of transformative research in agriculture requires three essential freedoms. First, researchers need to be free to engage in this transformative research. This entails a freed mindset, which enables researchers to leave behind traditional roles, e.g. for true knowledge exchange, co-design of projects, and learning from farmers. In addition, there needs to be a stronger appreciation for transdisciplinary and transformative research in the research community, accompanied by a reduced pressure to perform in other currently dominating assessment categories. Second, farmers need to be free to engage in this process as well. Again, this requires an open mindset, e.g. to engage in, and learn from collaborative research, but also available funds and time to engage in the process. Third, transformative agricultural research needs freedom in the project structure and in administrative rules. This includes the permission to fail and to tolerate errors, so that the people involved in the process are able to learn from mistakes. In addition, this is required so that projects are not set up to avoid risks, and can really be transformative and contain innovative elements. Finally, funders will need to show trust in the parties and to reduce administrative burden. Within this framework we discuss the success factors and limitations of transformative agricultural research using examples from various recent national and international projects.}, language = {en} }