All research activities should start with a well defined question. We believe that farmers and stakeholders are critical to framing the context of any problem or opportunity. By developing a shared explanatory framework that brings together current knowledge with a shared understanding of the important factors and processes we can define the key metrics to consider and identify potential solutions.  

FarmPEP.net provides a space to bring together information around topics, share explanatory framework, ideate project ideas and report progress. 

Collaborative tools like Miro are useful in getting to a shared understanding and simple visualisations of complex systems.

We should strive to distill information into simple knowledge nuggets that apply to a given context, and be honest about the uncertainties around them. 

The FarmPEP.net platform was co-developed to enable knowledge sharing in agriculture.

Anyone can add their organisation, projects or resource and link to Topics. 

Topic summaries are written by Stewards, who can recommend useful resources and content. 

We've not yet initiated the use of knowledge nuggets, but the aim should be to distill information on a given topic to the key bullet points that are relevant in a given context.

We developed this conceptual framework with AHDB for The Wheat Growth Guide in conjunction with the YEN. It aims to explain yield in terms of the availability, capture and conversion of the resources of light and water.  The YEN uses the metrics defined here to collect meaningful data from farmers on their soils and crop growth to enable benchmarking of yield potential and understand what's driving crop performance.