Stakeholders’ panels are a well-established tool to assess and monitor multidimensional processes across time, such as agroecological transitions. These transitions involve a diversified array of changes and innovations. Its assessment requires accounting for the social and agroecological decision-making contexts of farmers, forest producers, and other land managers. Hence, customised panels are required to cope with heterogeneity regarding the baselines and contexts.
The service consists of online panels for specific sectors, value chains, or regions, depending on the user’s needs. The panels can rely on customizing existing survey tools (e.g., OASIS, TAPE) or adopt new surveys depending on user needs. New survey tools will focus on subjective assessment of trade-offs explicit by the panel members. Panels are implemented across time to enable tracking agroecological transition and depicting (using infographics) how these trade-offs evolve with contextual changes, including subjective assessment of resources, knowledge and skills availability, costs and benefits, social norms, and objective data available.
The service provision is available in two options: 1) establishing the online panel, including recruiting participants and data storage, along with data analysis and results display; 2) designing survey tools for users with their panels and supporting them with data analysis and results display.
The design of new survey tools can encompass alternative frameworks, such as one-health or net-zero carbon approaches.
Panels can include different stakeholders and be established at the value-chain or the regional scale.