Organisational learning for innovation in agriculture: 25 years of experience from organic agriculture in Spain

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IGNACIO DE LOS RIOS

Abstract

In order to remain competitive and stay in the market in the near future, farmers will be compelled to adopt a portfolio of
strategies that include a series of innovative proposals, with the active participation and commitment of everyone involved.
To achieve this, enterprises must bet on knowledge and learning as main element to integrate experienced knowledge (from
farmers) with expert knowledge (technical-scientific). Integrating these two kinds of knowledge through research will change
paradigms and contribute to rural modernization and to rethinking collective proposals that generate governance, prosperity
and resilience. This work analyzes the processes and strategies related to knowledge management and organizational learning
in the field of organic farming in an agricultural cooperative in the area of Murcia, Spain. It is a successful model of
organizational learning, as 25 years of experience are managed in order to adequately influence the organizational level,
generating prosperity and sustainable development.


Keywords: Organisational learning; Spain; organic agriculture.

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LOS RIOS, I. D. (2017). Organisational learning for innovation in agriculture: 25 years of experience from organic agriculture in Spain. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1), 413–426. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i1.2284
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