CONTRIBUTIONS DES PARTENARIATS POUR CONCEVOIR DES CONNAISSANCES AGRONOMIQUES SUR LA GESTION DE L'HERBE ET DEVELOPPER DES OUTILS ACTIONNABLES PAR DES CONSEILLERS FOURRAGERS
N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5International audienceCo-design of artifacts usable by extension services can be a long-lasting task. It partly depends on the developments of scientific knowledge. In addition, as we will show in this testimony, training and partnership with practitioners play a key role in the design of an artifact, here a tool to diagnose the opportunity of grassland management practices in a farm. Discussions between researchers and practitioners during training sessions led to the design of prototypes of articfact. Partnership between researchers and practitioners on the long term contributed to adjust the artifact, to simplify its procedure, and overall to improve its diagnosis capacity by capitalizing on researchers' and practitioners' knowledge. This experience has required adaptive capacity of researchers, leading them to adopt different research postures according to the stages in the interactions with practitioners. Researchers considered practitioners as knowledge providers by associating them to articfact co-design, or as experts to be equipped by involving them in participatory research projects
