Agent - Based Models and Integrated Pest Management Diffusion in Small Scale Farmer Communities.

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dc.careerCiencias Biológicases
dc.category.authorprincipalen_US
dc.contributor.authorCrespo Pérez, María Verónica
dc.contributor.correspondingDangles, Olivier
dc.countryEcuadores
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-04T21:30:32Z
dc.date.available2023-11-04T21:30:32Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.dedication.authorTCes
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this chapter is to present how agent-based models can be used for the diffusion of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) information in small scale farmer communities, using the potato tuber moth in the North Andean region as a study case. This issue was addressed through an international project called INNOMIP (INNOvación en el Manejo Integrado de Plagas, 2009–2012, funded by the McKnight Foundation), which operated in three Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia). This project involved scientists from a broad range of disciplines, from agronomists to modelers to extensionists. With the specific objective of proposing innovative IPM extension tools, we first developed a role-playing game relying on an agent-based model to simulate the consequences of individual behaviors on pest control in a theoretical landscape. We then tried this role-playing game with 90 farmers belonging to 6 communities in three countries. Briefly, the training sessions consisted of a board game where farmers could exchange and discuss information about IPM practices and visualize the benefits of IPM adoption and cooperation within a theoretical landscape. Based on farmer interviews and comparison of IPM level of knowledge before and after the sessions, our study suggests that the role-playing game sessions significantly increased the IPM knowledge score in the community and also reduced farmers’ knowledge heterogeneity. Moreover, our analyses suggest that farmers’ age and extension experience significantly affected role-playing game success, with younger participants (and among them, those with higher initial knowledge) more inclined to increase their IPM knowledge after the session. While we have no evidence of the long (mid)-term benefits of our sessions in the adoption/changes of IPM practices, farmers revealed themselves more predisposed to understand and realize the importance of the cooperative basis of IPM and therefore disseminate to their peers IPM information they had acquired. At a broader scale, this study exemplifies how a computer simulation model can be used for teaching purposes and may represent a promising complement to existing IPM diffusion programs. More broadly, our experience with ABM (Agent-Based Models) for IPM issues suggests that new approaches in pest management extension practices should include topics such as group decision making, intergroup relations, commitment, and persuasion which deal directly with how other farmers influence each other’s thoughts and actions and consequently with the level of insect infestation in the community.en_US
dc.facultyCiencias Exactas y Naturaleses
dc.id.author1711667947
dc.id.type1
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-94-007-7802-3
dc.identifier.issn978-94-007-7801-6 - 978-94-007-7802-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.puce.edu.ec/handle/123456789/4563
dc.identifier.urihttp://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-7802-3_15
dc.indexed.databaseScimago Journal Rankes
dc.language.isoen
dc.list.authorsRebaudo, F., Carpio, C., Crespo, V., Herrera, M., Dangles, O., et al.
dc.magazine.pageRange367-383
dc.magazine.titleSpringeren_US
dc.magazine.volumeChapter4 (4)
dc.rightsClosedAccessen
dc.statepublisheden_US
dc.subjectRole-playinges
dc.subjectGamees
dc.subjectPotatoes
dc.subjectTuberes
dc.subjectMothes
dc.subjectAndeses
dc.subjectSociales
dc.subjectEcologicales
dc.subjectSystemses
dc.subjectINNOMIP programes
dc.subjectRole-playing
dc.subjectGame
dc.subjectPotato
dc.subjectTuber
dc.subjectMoth
dc.subjectAndes
dc.subjectSocial
dc.subjectEcological
dc.subjectSystems
dc.subjectINNOMIP program
dc.titleAgent - Based Models and Integrated Pest Management Diffusion in Small Scale Farmer Communities.en_US
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