A Training Toolkit on Innovation - Why is it important? Advisors as well as other professionals (e.g. leaders of operational groups in EIP) who are supporting innovators and innovations have usually a technical background and technical skills. This is important in order to get acceptance and a good contact and to give technical support. However, we saw in a lot of cases during the AgriSpin cross visits, that technical knowledge was not the bottleneck during the innovation process. Often the non-technical issues (e.g. relationship between key persons, creativity and energy in the team, network – contacts, planning skills, space and resources for trial and error, communication skills etc.) were crucial.
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This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
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