Amiculteurs, a digital tool to facilitate organization, exchange of experience, and collaborative on-farm experimentation in farmers groups
Amiculteurs is a digital platform to facilitate the implementation of participatory ex- perimentation processes within farmers’ groups. The article provides feedback on the Amiculteurs design process and discusses the conditions for mobilizing digital tools to facilitate OFE collaborations. Different trials and experiments of innovative practices are realized within groups of farmers. But it is not always easy to acquired and properly capitalize farmer’s experiences and data about the experiments carried out. Amicul- teurs is a collaborative application specifically designed to facilitate the engagement of farmers in the collective dynamics of experience sharing. Amiculteurs offers various tools that can be mobilized to facilitate the sharing and capitalization of experiences. The platform makes it possible to organize participatory observatories as well as parti- cipatory experiments. The application was co-designed with agricultural collectives in order to facilitate the implementation of on farm experimentations and the reporting of data experiments.