Using social network analysis to evaluate the impacts of the research: on the transition to organic farming in the Camargue

Évaluer les impacts des recherches en agriculture sur la société : outils, méthodes, études de cas. Coordonnateurs : Ariane Gaunand, Ludovic Temple, Gilles Trouche

Open Access

Table 3

Table of links of actors’ relationships.

Tableau des liens entre les relations d’acteurs.

T	Pathway links on relationships issues		Description of the underlying mechanism(s) of the links	Possible alternative explanations to the mechanism(s)

	Origin of the link	Destination of the link
1	Activity 1: CEBIOCA (Organic Cereals in the Camargue) project: Participative approach and agronomic “diagnosis” (2000–2004). Activity 2: Experimentations in farming plots (2005–2006). Activity 5: Experimentations of crop management techniques (2011). Activity 4: ORPESA (Organic Rice Production in Environmentally Sensitive Areas) “Table” (2006–2007).	Outcome 1: Growing influence of INRA (French National Institute of Agronomic Research) in the network (2000–2014).	Increasing exchanges between farmers and INRA.	Increase in relationships between INRA’s adjacent actors.
				Increase in relationships between INRA and other organizations.
				Relationships among all actors, excluding INRA, have decreased over time.




2	Activity 1: CEBIOCA project: Participatory approach and agronomic “diagnosis” (2000–2004). Activity 2: Experimentations in farming plots (2005–2006). Activity 5: Experimentations of crop management techniques (2011). Activity 8: Experimentations by CIRAD (International Centre of Agricultural Research) (2012…).	Outcome 3: Growing influence of CIRAD in the network (2000–2014).	Increasing exchanges between farmers and CIRAD.	Increase in relationships between CIRAD and other organizations.
				Increase in relationships between CIRAD’s adjacent actors.
				Relationships among all actors, excluding CIRAD, have decreased over time.




3	Outcome 1: Growing influence of INRA in the network (2000…). Outcome 3: Growing influence of CIRAD in the network (2000…).	Outcome 4: More exchanges and links in the network (2000–2014).	INRA has become an important broker in the network.	Other actors were becoming knowledge brokers.
			CIRAD has become an “average broker” in the network.

4	External factors: - Good selling price of organic rice. - Demand growth for organic rice.	Outcome 9: Growing influence of Biosud in the network (2003–2014).	Opportunity for Biosud to increase revenue. ^a	None. ^a
	Outcome 8: Adoption of the organic production mode.

SNA is not used to validate these elements.

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.