Communities of practice in crop diversity management: from data to collaborative governance

Louafi Selim, Thomas Mathieu, Jankowski Frédérique, Leclerc Christian, Barnaud Adeline, Baufume Servane, Guichardaz Alexandre, Joly Hélène, Labeyrie Vanesse, Leclercq Morgane, Ndiaye Aliou, Pham Jean Louis, Raimond Christine, Rey Alexandrine, Saidou Abdoul-Aziz, Temple Ludovic. 2023. Communities of practice in crop diversity management: from data to collaborative governance. In : Towards responsible plant data linkage: Data challenges for agricultural research and development. Williamson Hugh F. (ed.), Leonelli Sabina (ed.). Cham : Springer, 273-288. ISBN 978-3-031-13275-9

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13276-6_14

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Résumé : Establishing linkage among data of diverse domains (e.g. biological, environmental, socio-economical, and geographical) is critical to address complex multidimensional issues such as food security or sustainable agriculture. The complexity of this challenge increases with the level of heterogeneity of the data but also with the social context of production of datasets, a dimension usually less considered. Building on the experience of a transdisciplinary project on the diversity of crop diversity management systems in West Africa (CoEx), this chapter reflects on the importance to better account for agency for more meaningful, responsible and efficient plant data linkage. The chapter addresses sequentially the cognitive and political challenges related to data work and the way they could be addressed simultaneously within the same social unit. To do this, we rely on the concept of community of practice (CoP) which gained enormous popularity in relation to data and knowledge management. More than simply a social mechanism for community knowledge management, we show in this contribution that CoP needs to be approached as a social experiment and a terrain of collective situated leaming in order to address each challenge and their linkages with respect to data work.

Mots-clés libres : Community of Practice, Crop diversity, Data governance, Learning, Reflexivity

Agences de financement hors UE : University of Exeter

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