Terrado, M., Marcos, R., González-Reviriego, N. et al. (12 more authors) (2023) Co-production pathway of an end-to-end climate service for improved decision-making in the wine sector. Climate Services, 30. 100347. ISSN 2405-8807
Abstract
Climate services are one of the tools that can support the agriculture sector to address the impacts of climate change on agricultural production systems, not only considering climatic aspects but also social needs. This work describes the knowledge co-production journey of the EU-funded project MED-GOLD to create an end-to-end climate service for wine sector users. In this work, co-production is understood as an iterative, interactive and collaborative process among an interdisciplinary group of scientists and users that were engaged, involved, and empowered. The co-production process included activities to raise awareness on the vulnerability of grape and wine production to climate change, exchange knowledge between climate service providers and users, and co-develop customised climate services, such as the MED-GOLD Dashboard. Lessons learned are that repeated interaction between scientists and users allow to better frame research questions, jointly decide how to address these questions, and test the outcomes with feedback from real-world decision-makers. Furthermore, having a user who co-developed the service and helped assess its added value was key to ensure that it could truly inform decision-making needs and to promote its broader uptake by the wine sector community. Although the MED-GOLD Dashboard constitutes the most tangible result of this collaboration, the outcomes of co-production also encompass the joint learning process, the shared sense of ownership, and the co-creation of new knowledge between scientists and stakeholders. Nevertheless, further research will be needed to understand how the knowledge coproduced with a single user can be scaled up to users with other profiles and requirements.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
Keywords: | Knowledge exchange, Dashboard, Climate predictions, Agriculture, User engagement, Communication |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 776467 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2024 09:44 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2024 09:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100347 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215064 |