New integrative modalities for connecting policy makers, farmers and scientists for adaptive farming management in a climate changing world

Over the past 20 years the context for agriculture has changed rapidly, sometimes radically. This has significant implications for the way that policy makers, policy implementers, farmers and scientists as well as other stakeholders work together. Drawing on case studies from South Africa, France, the Netherlands, and the UK and from a recent project on the climate change adaptation of Italian agriculture (www.agroscenari.it), we provide a range of examples of how new and more ‘integrative’ modalities are being developed as a means of connecting these different actors in new relationships of knowledge coproduction and innovation. We conclude with some reflections on how such approaches might best be upscaled.