living lab - atlantic project overview
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Living Lab - AtlanticProject Overview
Scott AndersonSite Coordinator
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What is a Living Laboratory?
Co-design
Exploration/Experimentation
Adoption
Validate and refine the cycle of innovation (priorities, outcomes, etc)
Identify the needs/outcomes –anticipate possible impediments
Acquire new data, conduct experiments, develop new knowledge
Take stock of the experiments and the cycle of innovation
Evaluation
Evaluate new practice or technology, and adjust based on producer input
(Adapted from L’Acadie Lab)
A Living Laboratory is an integrated approach to agricultural innovation that bring farmers, scientists and other partners together to co-develop, test and monitor BMPs and new technologies in a real life context.
The result will be more practical technologies and sustainable farming practices adopted more quickly by Canadian farmers.
Planning/Targeting
Traditional Innovation Approach
Research DevelopmentKnowledge
Transfer
Evolution of KTT
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RDT
Relationships &
Collaboration
Knowledge Transfer / Extension
Adoption / Practice Change
Relationships &
Collaboration
Something was still missing…..
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A New Approach for KTT
• Living Labs
– co-develop the project
– co-collect the measurements
– co-create the science information and conclusions
– End-goal: earlier adoption of BMPs and demonstrated success by producers to their peers
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Steen and van Bueren, 2017
User Centred Approach
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Co-Development: Key Points
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❑ It is a regular and required process in an ongoing cycle of innovation.
❑ It includes organized events where all participants are focused specifically on evaluating practices or technologies and contributing ideas toward their improvement.
❑ It is user-centred, but is also collaborative: users and partners from various disciplines and backgrounds all contribute their unique perspectives toward a common goal.
Co-Development
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❑ It complements informal or unplanned moments of reflection and conversation about potential solutions.
❑ It must be captured in a way that will enable decisions to be made.
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PEI Living Lab
• The Team
– 70 participants
– AAFC, DFO, ECCC, CFIA, PMC, PEI Depts of Agriculture and Environment, academia (Dal, UNB, St. FX, 9 Ph.D. or M.Sc.), NGOs (including watershed groups), producer groups
– STB Living Labs management team
• 2 Living Labs sites in 2019 (PEI, MB)
• Additional sites in 2020 and 2021
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1a Identification of
significant carbon
sinks
1b Spatial targeting
of conservation at
the field scale
1c Enhancing
habitat capacity /
minimizing risks
1d Hydrology and
water quality of
non-grain
plantings
2a On farm soil
health and fertility
indicators and
downstream
implications
2b Slow
release
fertilizers
3a When and how
to construct surface
water storage
3b Tile drainage
management
practices
3c Informed
drainage and
wetland
restoration
4a Farm level
economic
analysis of
BMPS
4b Understanding
BMP adoption4c Estimate of
GHG reduction
with BMPS
C1 Living
Lab Clubs
C2
Regenerative
Agriculture*
C3 Perennial
Crops &
Plants*
C4 Water
Quality &
Quantity*
C5
Pollinator
Habitat
C6 Spatial
Targeting
for max
benefit
C7 Understanding
BMP uptake
C8 BMP policy
evaluation and
opportunities
C9 Integration
and Project
management
PEI Living Lab
• Primary Objectives
– test and demonstrate BMPs to enhance soil health and crop productivity
• Cover crops, tillage, supplemental irrigation, soil mapping
– test and demonstrate BMPs to reduce nutrients, and pesticides loadings
• Modelling, precision agriculture, GHG, N decision support tool
– perform socio-economic assessment of BMPs
• Farm level economics and barriers/incentives to adoption
– transfer knowledge and technology of BMP
• On farm demonstrations
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BMP1: Use of Fall Seeded Cover Cropsfollowing Primary Tillage
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
BMP 1: Cover Crops Before Potatoes
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Selection of fields (up to 8) and treatments
Soil sampling for soil chemical, soil N supply, Verticillium/nematodes, soil health characteristics, compaction
Record percentage ground cover
Measure erosion potential (pins, splash pans)
Measure impact on yield/quality of potatoes
• Show the benefits of fall cover crop following tillage for erosion control, soil health, soil organic matter, and yield in potatoes the following year
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BMP2: Use of Fall Seeded Cover Cropsfollowing Potato Production
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
BMP 2: Cover Crops after Potatoes
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Selection of fields (up to 8) and treatments
Soil sampling for soil chemical, soil N supply, soil health characteristics, soil nitrate at 3 depths
Record percentage ground cover
Measure erosion potential (pins, splash pans)
• Show the benefits of fall cover crop following potato harvest to reduce soil erosion, intercept soil nitrates, improve soil health.
• Supporting Activity #2
BMP3: Use of Full-Season Soil-BuildingRotation Crops for Building Soil OM
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
BMP 3: Soil-Building Crops
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Selection of fields (up to 10) and treatments
Soil sampling for soil chemical, soil N supply, soil health characteristics, Verticillium/nematodes, compaction
Recording above ground biomass
Yield/quality of potatoes the following year
• Show the benefits of full-season, non-harvested rotation crops at improving soil organic matter, soil structure, and disease/pest pressure
• Supporting Activity #2
BMP 4- Nurse Cropping Demonstration Trials within Potato and Corn Production
Systems
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
BMP-5 Demonstrating Potato Productivity and Nitrogen use efficiency as affected by Supplemental Irrigation
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
BMP#6 - Effect of irrigation on yield, quality and economic value of existing and
emerging processing potato varieties
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
BMP#7 - Reducing nitrogen loss through use of slow release fertilizer products
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
Using constructed wetland and vegetated drain ditches* to improve water quality (External BMP 8)
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting November 19, 2019
Assessment of the impact of land use and management practices on nitrate loading
in intensive agricultural watershed
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2019-20 Update
Atlantic Living Laboratories Semi-Annual Meeting January 27, 2020
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Questions???