Research partnership for an agroecology-based solidarity economy in Bolivia and Brazil

目标：该伙伴关系将三个研究小组联合起来，以深化他们与社区组织开展参与行动研究的跨学科技能，将农业生态创新作为实现可持续、社会公平发展的关键手段。这三个研究小组是：开放大学、巴西圣保罗州立大学（UNESP）和玻利维亚南部的Jaina Estudios社区。他们的伙伴关系旨在：-根据传统低收入社区的需要和要求，确定和加强社区以农业生态为基础的团结经济的能力；和。——开发、结合、测试和完善基于文化的研究方法，使这些社区能力更加明显，作为通过多方利益相关者的知识合作生产加强这些能力的基础。综合专业知识：在农业食品可持续发展的广泛领域内，三个研究团队带来了不同的专业知识（方法，专题和学科），这些专业知识将通过跨学科研究进行整合。这解决了现实世界的问题，以克服专业知识和外行知识之间的距离，以及研究和政策之间的距离。研究结果将在项目手册和最后报告中提出一种创新的方法。活动：每个研究小组将与相关社区成员组成一个行动研究小组；一些人已经同意参与这个项目。他们将计划在每个个案研究地区举办一系列三次讲习班：中部山谷（玻利维亚）、巴西北部沿海地区；以及巴西的Baixada Santista。在每个领域，第三次研讨会将吸引更多的参与者来讨论结果、项目成功的指标和研究方法的实际应用。与此同时，拉丁美洲和国际咨询小组将与更广泛的网络，特别是粮农组织的生态农业方案保持联系。最后的全项目会议将提出产出草案。本次会议将汇集社区参与者、支持组织、公共当局（地方、州和联邦部委）、其他联邦组织和粮农组织生态农业计划拉丁美洲捐助者的代表。项目产出将强调与传统社区农业生态创新有关的方法，以促进团结经济。它们将被设计为媒体工具，以在当地、区域或国际上产生影响。-实践者方法论手册。-每个试点案例研究报告（x3）。-通过试点案例研究，介绍新研究方法在实践中的实施情况，从中吸取的教训和更广泛的影响（英文）。-由专业电影制作人制作有关社区知识合作制作过程的影片。将增加双语字幕。-摘要：打印的输出将是双面的A3小册子，总结以上每个较长的输出，包括一个条形码，以便于从项目网站下载。这些将被印刷（3000份），以便在拉丁美洲的许多有关活动上广泛分发。-论文将在众多专业会议上发表，并在学术期刊上发表。所有这些报告都将以西班牙语和（或）葡萄牙语编写，但较长的最后报告及其摘要将以英语编写。所有这些都将在项目网站上提供，该网站将在项目结束后很长一段时间内继续运行。影响：该项目将产生几个影响，特别是：通过研究方法将提高社区组织的能力。其网络的广泛参与将丰富多方利益相关者的知识交流（diálogos de saberes）。低收入生态农业社区将需要支持措施，以增强其以生态农业为基础的团结经济的能力。

Objectives: The partnership combines three research teams to deepen their interdisciplinary skills for participatory action research with community organisations developing agroecological innovation as a crucial means towards sustainable, socially equitable development. The three research teams are: Open University, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP in São Paolo, Brazil) and the Comunidad de Estudios Jaina (CEJ) in southern Bolivia. Their partnership aims to: - identify and strengthen community capacities for an agroecology-based solidarity economy, in response to needs and demands of traditional lower-income communities; and.- develop, combine, test and refine culturally-grounded research methods for making those community capacities more visible, as a basis to strengthen them through multi-stakeholder knowledge co-production. Integrated expertise: Within the broad area of agri-food sustainability, the three research teams bring diverse expertise (methodological, thematic and disciplinary) which will be integrated through transdisciplinary research. This addresses real-world problems in order to overcome the distance between specialized and lay knowledges, as well as between research and policy. The results will present an innovative methodology in the project's handbook and final report.Activities:Each research team will form an action-research group with members of relevant communities; some already agreed to participate in the project. They will plan a series of three workshops to be held in each case-study area: the Valle Central (Bolivia), Brazil's Litoral Norte; and Brazil's Baixada Santista. In each area, the third workshop will attract many more participants to discuss the results, the project's indicators of success and practical use of the research method.Meanwhile the Latin American and International Advisory Panels will maintain contact with wider networks, especially the FAO's agroecology programme. Final project-wide conference will present the draft outputs. This conference will bring together representatives of community participants, support organisations, public authorities (local, state and Federal Ministries), other Federal organisations and Latin American contributors to the FAO's agroecology programme.Project outputs will emphasise methods relevant to agroecological innovation of traditional communities for a solidarity economy. They will be designed as media tools to gain impact locally, regionally or internationally. - Methodology handbook for practitioners. - Report from each pilot case-study (x 3). - Report on the novel research methodology demonstrating its implementation in practice through the pilot case studies, lessons from them and wider implications (in English). - Films on the communities' knowledge co-production processes, to be commissioned from - professional film-makers. Bilingual subtitles will be added. - Summaries: The printed outputs will be double-sided A3 brochures summarising each of the longer outputs above, including a bar code for easily downloading them from the project website. These will be printed (3000 copies) for wide distribution at numerous relevant events in Latin America.- Papers will be presented at numerous professional conferences and published in academic journals. All these will be in Spanish and/or Portuguese, except that the longer final report and its summary will be in English. All will be available on the project's website, which will continue long after the project. Impacts: The project will have several impacts, in particular: Community organisations' capacities will be enhanced through the research method. Wide participation of their networks will enrich multi-stakeholder knowledge-exchange (diálogos de saberes). Lower-income agroecological communities will demand support measures enhancing their capacities for an agroecology-based solidarity economy.