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Kipling, R.; Scollan, N.; Bannink, A.; van Middelkoop, J. |
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From diversity to strategy: Livestock research for effective policy in a climate change world |
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European livestock agriculture is extraordinarily diverse, and so are the challenges it faces. This diversity has contributed to the development of a fragmented set of research communities. As a result, livestock research is often under-represented at policy level, despite its high relevance for the environment and food security. Understanding livestock systems and how they can sustainably adapt to global change requires inputs across research areas, including grasslands, nutrition, health, welfare and ecology. It also requires experimental researchers, modellers and stakeholders to work closely together. Networks and capacity building structures are vital to enable livestock research to meet the challenges of climate change. They need to maintain shared resources and provide non-competitive arenas to share and synthesize results for policy support. ï‚· Long term strategic investment is needed to support such structures. Their leadership requires very different skills to those effective in scientific project coordination. |
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Dalgaard, T.; Kjeldsen, C.; Meyer-Aurich, A.; Özkan, S.; Rolinski, S.; Köchy, M.; Olesen, J.E.; Brouwer, F.; van den Pol-van Dasselaar, A.; Kipling, R. |
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Farming systems models for regional scale impact assessment in Europe – case studies of N-losses and greenhouse gas emissions |
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Scaling in global, regional and farm models, 2014-09-24 to 2014-09-24 |
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Saetnan, E.R.; Kipling, R.P. |
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Evaluating a European knowledge hub on climate change in agriculture: Are we building a better connected community |
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Scientometrics |
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Scientometrics |
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Agriculture; Climate change; Interdisciplinary collaboration; Co-authorship; networks; EU research policy; Collaborative funding initiatives; Knowledge hub |
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In order to maintain food security and sustainability of production under climate change, interdisciplinary and international collaboration in research is essential. In the EU, knowledge hubs are important funding instruments for the development of an interconnected European Research Area. Here, network analysis was used to assess whether the pilot knowledge hub MACSUR has affected interdisciplinary collaboration, using co-authorship of peer reviewed articles as a measure of collaboration. The broad community of all authors identified as active in the field of agriculture and climate change was increasingly well connected over the period studied. Between knowledge hub members, changes in network parameters suggest an increase in collaborative interaction beyond that expected due to network growth, and greater than that found in the broader community. Given that interdisciplinary networks often take several years to have an impact on research outputs, these changes within the relatively new MACSUR community provide evidence that the knowledge hub structure has been effective in stimulating collaboration. However, analysis showed that knowledge hub partners were initially well-connected, suggesting that the initiative may have gathered together researchers with particular resources or inclinations towards collaborative working. Long term, consistent funding and ongoing reflection to improve networking structures may be necessary to sustain the early positive signs from MACSUR, to extend its success to a wider community of researchers, or to repeat it in less connected fields of science. Tackling complex challenges such as climate change will require research structures that can effectively support and utilise the diversity of talents beyond the already well-connected core of scientists at major research institutes. But network research shows that this core, well-connected group are vital brokers in achieving wider integration. |
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Kipling, R.P.; Bannink, A.; Özkan Gülzari, Ş.; Van Middelkoop, J. |
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Advances in Animal Biosciences |
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Kipling, R.; Özkan, S. |
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Communicating Modelling |
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TradeM International Workshop 2014 »Economics of integrated assessment approaches for agriculture and the food sector«, Hurdalsjøen, Norway, 2014-11-25 to 2014-11-27 |
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