Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica

Baltic Studies Centre

The establishment of effective national agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) became a Euro-pean policy imperative in the 2010s, lodged in a political ideology which emphasised the importance of innovation to economic growth. We argue that the recent deployment of the AKIS concept in EU policy presents important opportunities for the...

The complexity of contemporary territorial development challenges – such as uneven growth trajectories triggered by monocentric development, social and economic inequalities, depopulation of rural and remote territories, environmental degradation – calls for addressing them in a systemic, multi-level and cross-sectoral manner. Collaborative and par...

PLANNING THE OBSCURE: HOW TO ENGAGE WITH THE EVERMORE AMBIGUOUS FUTURE The shifts changing the reality we are living in are becoming ever faster, the global and local challenges we deal with are increasingly more complex, and this is happening while we are becoming more aware of the limitations of the assumptions we have been using to explain the...

Purpose To advance the discussion of retro-innovation and highlight the implications this has for the provision of agricultural advice and the role of advisors. Design/Methodology/Approach 70 interviews with farmers and 10 interviews with experts on biological pest control and direct marketing in Latvia were conducted. Findings Biological pest co...

Research-based on-farm trials and demonstrations are becoming a norm in agricultural research and extension involving collaboration between scientists, advisors, and farmers. There is, however, a rather large variation in the engagement models underlying this farmer participatory research and extension depending on the form and intensity of farmer...

On 11 June 2021, an online interdisciplinary scientific conference “Latvia on the way towards sustainable food production and consumption” was organised by the scientific institute Baltic Studies Centre. It was held as part of the project “Social Innovation in Food Provision: Pathways to Sustainable Production and Consumption” (SINFO) funded by the...

Purpose The paper investigates the multi-actor processes of knowledge co-production in the implementation of research-based on-farm demonstration with a focus on collaboration arrangements and areas of contention. Design/Methodology/Approach Building on science studies and literature on farmer participatory research and extension, the paper uses a...

Purpose: The paper identifies, outlines, and categorises establishment and operational factors that contribute to successful agricultural on-farm demonstration. Design/Methodology/approach: The paper is based on a literature review on demonstration activities and meta-analysis of 24 original case study reports from 12 European countries. Findings:...

Topics concerning food and diets have gained prominence in academic writing, policy debates and media coverage, not least due to public health problems, sedentary lifestyles, and concerns regarding dietary habits and the impact of food production on climate change. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the ways dietary practices have been framed i...

For more than two decades market conditions for European producers have changed significantly due to liberalization and increasing price volatility. The objective of this article is to analyze how farming systems in five European countries (Denmark, Greece, France, Latvia, and the United Kingdom) have reacted to the emerging instability of the milk...

Purpose: To assess the inclusivity of on-farm demonstration across Europe, in relation to age, gender, and geographical location of participants. Methodology: The paper is based on a survey of 1162 on-farm demonstrators (farmers and organisations) and three supra-regional workshops. Findings: Overall, on farm-demonstrations were found to be engagin...

Despite a longstanding literature on small farm-households, there is limited consideration of small farms’ role in food and nutrition security (FNS) at territorial level. The purpose of this study is to provide insights about how small farms contribute to FNS at different territorial scales, by focusing on farmers' strategies and consequential FNS...

The official statistics show that the number of small farms (SFs) in Europe is decreasing. Their ability to maintain their activities in the light of internal and external disturbances relies on diverse resilience strategies. Building on resilience literature, this paper addresses the following research questions: what economic, social, and environ...

Over the past two years, two projects - AgriDemo-F2F and PLAID (H2020) - have investigated peer learning in the context of on-farm demonstrations across Europe. Both projects will produce their results in the coming months. Early 2018, NEFERTITI (H2020) started with the objective to boost peer learning through the development of 10 supra-regional n...

In contemporary societies there is a continuous process of creation and destruction of ethics. Shared norms are fuzzy, as actors tend to share core principles but interpret them differently. In this paper we analyse three cases of ethical dispute in the agri-food sector by employing the distinction between matters of fact and matters of concern pro...

The paper approaches the field of biomedicine as an example of a modern science–society relationship by means of identifying and analysing the range of public encounters with this field of research and practice, and the differing communication models underlying these encounters. Guided by theoretical and empirical research into science communicatio...

This chapter examines the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the promotion of social inclusiveness, both internally and externally. The empirical study is based on the case of Latvia, providing qualitative analysis of the official national policy discourse and the formal discourse represented by the medium-term strategies of the six pu...

The thesis is grounded in the disciplinary field of science and technology studies with the primary interest in the changing social status of knowledge and science, the models of its public governance and tieback with the concept of civic engagement. Research is focused on the development of public communication of science in Latvia, the analysis o...

The article presents an analysis of expert discourse of public communication of science in Latvia with regard to the goals of this communication and the involved aspects of science–society relations. Data analysis of in-depth expert interviews is based on the principles of discourse analysis, with the main emphasis laid on the informal expert disco...

This analytical country report is one of a series of annual ERAWATCH reports produced for EU Member States and Countries Associated to the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Union (FP7). ERAWATCH is a joint initiative of the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation and Joint Research Centre. The an...

La Lettonie est un petit pays de 2,3 millions d’habitants, situé dans le Nord-est de l’Europe, sur la côte est de la mer Baltique. C’est un pays en voie de rattrapage économique qui a subi une transformation politique et économique radicale pendant les années 1990, passant d’un régime autoritaire communiste et d’une économie socialiste planifiée à...

The European TrendChart on innovation is the longest running policy benchmarking tool at European level. Since its launch in 1999 it has produced annual reports on national innovation policy and governance, created a comprehensive database of national innovation policy measures and organised a series of policy benchmarking workshops. The databases...

This analytical country report is one of a series of annual ERAWATCH reports which are produced for EU Member and Countries Associated to the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). ERAWATCH is a joint initiative of the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation and Joint Research Centre. The analytical framework a...

Rakstā sniegts analītisks pārskats par Latvijā 20. gs. beigās – 21. gs. sākumā veiktajiem pētījumiem starpdisciplinārās zinātnes un tehnoloģiju sociālās izpētes jomas tematikas ietvaros. Tajā analizēta informācija par attiecīgo problemātiku skārušajiem Latvijas pētniekiem (institūcijām, individuāliem zinātniekiem) un to pārstāvētajiem pētnieciskaji...

Latvia is a small country with 2.3 million inhabitants located in the North-East Europe at the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It is a catching-up economy, which in the 1990s underwent political and economic transformation from an authoritarian communist party rule and centrally planned socialist economy to a democratic multiparty government and l...

This analytical country report is one of 33 reports for EU Member and Associated States prepared as part of ERAWATCH. ERAWATCH is a joint initiative of the European Commission's Directorates General for Research and Joint Research Centre. For further information on ERAWATCH see http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch. The analytical framework and the stru...

INNO-Policy TrendChart, previously the TrendChart on Innovation, has been running since January 2000. It currently tracks innovation policy developments in all 27 EU Member States, plus Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Japan, Iceland, India, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and the US. The INNO-Policy TrendChart website provides access to the fol...

As a small European country that joined the European Union in 2004 after being part of the USSR for half a century, Latvia and its system of higher education and research is continually adapting to changing conditions, both nationally and internationally. While it experienced a certain depression in the 1990s, conditioned by the reorientation from...

This analytical country report has been prepared as part of the ERAWATCH project. ERAWATCH is a joint initiative of the European Commission's Directorates General for Research and Joint Research Centre. For further information on ERAWATCH see http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch. The analytical framework and the structure have been developed by the Ins...

The INNO-Policy TrendChart, previously TrendChart on Innovation, has been running since January 2000. It now tracks innovation policy developments in all 27 EU Member States, plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, the USA and India. This document has been prepared within the framework of an initiat...

The main focus of this article is on the concept of social accountability in the field of science, which is backed up by secondary data analysis of the public opinion on participation in decision making processes and issues of scientific responsibility in Latvia, Norway and the European Union. Some mechanisms of public participation in the field of...

The INNO-Policy TrendChart, previously TrendChart on Innovation, has been running since January 2000. It now tracks innovation policy developments in all 27 EU Member States, plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, USA and India. This document has been prepared within the framework of an initiative...

The Trend Chart on Innovation has been running since January 2000. It now tracks Innovation policy developments in all 25 EU Member States, plus Bulgaria, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and Turkey. It also provides a policy monitoring service for three other non-European zones: NAFTA/Brazil, Asia and the MEDA countries...

This paper provides a brief insight into the basic principles of public understanding of science, addressing issues related to science-society relations as well as into the notion of risk in the context of scientific and technological development. In the light of these perspectives the paper reviews the relevant studies carried out in Latvia and pr...

This paper aims to identify Europeanization tendencies concerning innovation policy in Latvia by integrating it within a broader framework of science and technology governance issues. Analysis of the main relevant policy documents has been carried out on both national and supranational level detecting common and divergent trends in policy developme...

The Trend Chart on Innovation has been running since January 2000. It now tracks innovation policy developments in all 25 EU Member States, plus Bulgaria, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and Turkey. It also provides a policy monitoring service for three other non- European zones: NAFTA/Brazil, Asia and the MEDA countrie...

The Trend Chart on Innovation has been running since January 2000. It now tracks innovation policy developments in all 25 EU Member States, plus Bulgaria, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and Turkey. It also provides a policy monitoring service for three other non- European zones: NAFTA/Brazil, Asia and the MEDA countrie...

This report is an analysis of innovation related policy developments in Latvia for the period 1996 to December 2002. It has been prepared as part of the study on “Innovation Policy in Seven Candidate Countries: The Challenges” (Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey) which was carried during the period November 2001 to Dec...

In the formation of a knowledge-based economy an increasing attention is being paid to the fact that national competitiveness largely depends on the efficient linking of different actors within a national system of innovation. Among others, one of the crucial links in seen between university and industry in promoting innovation process. One of wide...