The co-creation of agroecological knowledge
The co-creation of agroecological knowledge
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农业生态知识的共同创造
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2018
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S. Gliessman
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新的知识在我们的食物系统中不断被创造出来。农民们不断地观察和测试新的做法、种子、工具和关系。农业生态学研究人员不断进行测试和实验，以了解食物系统功能和管理的生态基础。社会运动不断倾听和整合处于粮食系统公平、公正和粮食正义斗争第一线的人们的知识、需求和观点。当这三种形式的知识联系在一起时（学者们称之为跨学科性），新的知识就产生了。变化发生了。农业生态学综合了这三种知识形式。在最近一期的Farming Matters（2016）中，强调了这一共同创造过程。案例研究中提出的知识系统的联系往往导致戏剧性的转变和变化的粮食系统。例如，一所大学的研究人员与加州的一个小规模有机草莓种植者建立了长期合作伙伴关系，在那里，知识共享为有机水果生产的出现奠定了基础，当时每个人都说这是不可能的。其他例子说明了农民对农民的经验在推动跨代、跨性别和跨地点的知识交流方面的重要影响。然而，其他例子详细说明了这种知识交流如何为一个更为“自下而上”的学习过程提供力量和动力，而不是大多数现代工业化农业系统中常见的更为传统的自上而下的技术转让。而且，也许最重要的是，这种跨学科的知识共同创造如何促进了重要的社会运动的发展，不仅赋予农民创新，而且还产生了全新的实践，政策和研究健康，公正和公平的粮食系统的例子。我们的杂志期待着展示知识的共同创造如何作为农业生态学促进粮食系统变化的重要方式的例子。
New knowledge is constantly being created in our food systems. Farmers are constantly observing and testing new practices, seeds, tools, and relationships. Agroecology researchers are constantly testing and experimenting in order to understand the ecological foundations of food system function and management. Social movements are constantly listening and integrating the knowledge, needs, and points of view of the people at the frontlines of the struggle for food system equity, fairness, and food justice. When these three forms of knowledge are linked (something academics call transdisciplinarity), new knowledge is created. And change occurs. Agroecology integrates all three of these forms of knowledge. In a recent issue of Farming Matters (2016) this co-creation process is highlighted. Case studies are presented where the linkage of knowledge systems is leading to often-dramatic shifts and changes in food systems. Examples include a long-term collaborative partnership between a university researcher and a small-scale organic strawberry grower in California where knowledge sharing created the foundation for the emergence of organic production of the fruit when everybody said it couldn’t be done. Other examples describe the important impact of farmer-to-farmer experience in motivating exchange of knowledge across generations, gender, and locations. Yet, other examples detail the way such knowledge exchange provides the strength and momentum for a much more “bottom-up” learning process, rather than the more conventional top-down technology transfer common in most modern industrial agricultural systems. And, perhaps most importantly, examples are presented of how this transdisciplinary co-creation of knowledge has promoted the development of important social movements that not only empower farmer innovation, but also produce fundamentally new types of practice, policy, and research for healthy, just, and equitable food systems. Our journal looks forward to presenting examples of how the co-creation of knowledge functions as an essential way that agroecology is promoting food system change.