The influence of regional actors on the success of an interregional learning and innovation network for sustainable agriculture

The Interreg project DAIRYMAN is an interregional learning and innovation network for sustainable agriculture with the aim to set up networks to connect knowledge, to exchange tools and to create innovations, focusing on improving dairy farm resource management in a profitable way. Within this interregional network differences between regional networks emerge, which might influence farmers learning. This is what we aim to investigate with the methodology described in this paper. Some first preliminary results on the networks in the Netherlands and Northern Ireland are discussed.