Needs for training and advisory as well as for formal education - Deliverable 6.3

Knowledge and innovation are key factors to help farmers to transition to diversified cropping systems as well as to help advisors foster diversification. To induce the required paradigm shift, strategic adaptations and changes in the agricultural knowledge and innovation system (AKIS), Task 6.3 aims at developing (i) specific training strategies and programmes for continued professional development; and (ii) strategies for formal education for future scientists or engineers. As a first step in this task, there is a need to identify the knowledge and skills needed by farmers to diversify their cropping systems, as well as by advisors and teachers to provide support and promote such diversification. Deliverable 6.3 aims to summarise the outcomes of seven workshops organised in six European countries to collect the needs and expectations from key actors of AKIS: farmers, advisors and teachers and researchers in the agricultural field