Conduire une expérimentation en recherche action en partenariat : co-concevoir une innovation, l'étudier

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Drive an experiment in research-action partnerships, conceive an innovation and study it. Numerous results of the agronomic research were little or not adopted by the farmers. Their implication limited in the approach of research hid their stakes and needs in the conception of new techniques. The participation of the local actors in the definition of the questions of research, in the implementation of devices then in the implementation of solutions is experimented by the approach of research-action partnerships. This original posture will be illustrated by works driven in frame of the project Fertipartenaires which aims at the co-conception of agropastoral innovations by an approach of research-action partnerships. By basing itself on the experiences of the project in the domains of the production of organic manure (pits with compost in the field, the stamping of the stalks of cotton plant) and of its application reasoned in the field, we shall show how the experiment driven in an approach of research-action partnerships is at the origin of a process of innovation and learning and participle in the production of new local knowledge necessary for the coproduction of the innovations. This communication will expose the principles of the experiment driven in an approach of research-action partnerships, the main sequences, its specificities, its added value and its limits.