Serious game: DYNAMIX

Crop-livestock collaborations beyond farm level are recognized as promising options to i) achieve environmental interest in crop-livestock systems regarding circularity in inputs while ii) overcoming work limit constraints at the farm level. Still, establishing exchanges (buying/selling of feed or manure) among farms can be rather complex in terms of logistics and collective organization. Co-design could thus be a relevant options to build scenarios with farmers considering their practices and context.

We developed a serious game called Dynamix allowing a group of farmers, advisers and researchers to  co-design scenarios of collaborations between neighbouring crop farmers and livestock farmers. Dynamix is combining a spatially explicit board game to an evaluation model allowing to design and evaluate crop-livestock integration scenarios among farms. A multicriteria evaluation of these scenarios is led at the individual farm and at the group level.

A major interest of Dynamix tool is because it provides a standardized method to co-design crop-livestock integration beyond farm level and is easily applicable to other case-studies. The participative approach has been scaled-out to three other MIXED landscape case-studies (Denmark, Scotland and the Netherlands).