Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa

Adelle Camilla, Görgens Tristan, Kroll Florian, Losch Bruno. 2021. Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa. Science and Public Policy, 48 (2) : 145-153.

Quartile : Q3, Sujet : PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / Quartile : Q4, Sujet : ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / Quartile : Q4, Sujet : MANAGEMENT

Résumé : Communities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent 'Food Governance Community of Practice' in South Africa that brings together multiple stakeholders to co-produce knowledge to inform local food policy and governance. Our results show the following lessons for managers and participants engaged in establishing similar 'third spaces' for knowledge co-production: 1) make inevitable power asymmetries explicit; 2) the identity of the group should not be built on a particular normative position but emerge from discursive processes and 3) create a balance between supporting peripheral learning and maintaining the specialist cutting edge discussions needed for co-production. Furthermore, the most beneficial legacy of a Community of Practice may not be the outputs in terms of the co-produced knowledge but the development of a cohesive group of stakeholders with a new shared way of knowing.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : gouvernance, apprentissage, produit alimentaire, partie intéressée, politique alimentaire, approche participative, communauté locale, politique de l'environnement, gestion des ressources naturelles, gestion des connaissances

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Afrique du Sud, Afrique

Mots-clés libres : Communities of practice, Co-production of knowledge, Science-policy interface, Transdisciplinary research, Food governance, Afrique du Sud

Agences de financement hors UE : DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis

Auteurs et affiliations

• Adelle Camilla, University of Pretoria (ZAF) - auteur correspondant
• Görgens Tristan, Western Cape Goverment (ZAF)
• Kroll Florian, University of the Western Cape (ZAF)
• Losch Bruno, CIRAD-ES-UMR ART-DEV (ZAF)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/605100/)

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