Learning of trained diplomats on the agricultural innovation system in Cuba
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Knowledge management is a process of creating values, a fundamental component of the development of Innovations. In local food systems, multi-stakeholder approaches to the process demand the identification of the tools acquired and the ways in which they are implemented to contribute to the adoption or not of them by the multiple actors interacting at the local level. For this reason, this work focused on evaluating the learning of trained diplomats from various territories, after a period of execution of their actions after the learning was completed.Through the application of semi-structured interviews and surveys, it was possible to visualize the knowledge management process developed and the capacities formed to achieve the paradigm shift around agricultural innovation were identified. It was found that, despite the differences detected in the contexts, the skills trained in the diplomats allowed them to draw up strategies in favor of institutional integration with participatory approaches to manage innovations in agricultural systems. Through learning in action and its methodological modalities, it was possible to identify challenges and plan actions to solve them; as well as to design continuous learning cycles in new key actors of the municipalities involved.
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