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Après deux ans et demi d’existence, les programmes de recherche d’Agroscope lancés en 2008 dégagent toujours plus de résultats au niveau des différents projets. Parallèlement, les projets incorporés dans les programmes engendrent de premiers produits de synthèse. Outre les activités de recherche en cours, le développement des programmes a débuté en tenant compte du Programme…

Around one per cent of Swiss family farms provide social services, making Switzerland one of the leading countries in Europe for care farming. Among the services offered, for example, are assisted living and supervised work on a farm for people with disabilities, the placement of children from difficult social backgrounds in farming foster families, and…

Especially in the initial phase of organic agriculture practical knowledge and the cooperation between farmers, researchers and extension agents played a central role in knowledge production. At this time knowledge exchange shows many characteristics of transdisciplinary knowledge production. Since then the potential of the collaboration of practice and science has more and more been neglected.…

When do agricultural producers invest in new harvesting technology, change the rotation of crop and fertilisation, reorient their production or use new marketing channels? Over the last years the use of advanced knowledge and technology in agriculture has become more and more important. Farmers, as well as agro-industry companies that provide agricultural input or buy,…