This book compiles the 23 peer-reviewed papers submitted at the conference, alongside 34 short presentation videos, as well as the conference summary of the keynote and welcome addresses, the summary of the whiteboard sessions that happened during the conference, and the Theory of Change that resulted from those exchanges. The book also contains the summary of the four workshops that happened ahead of the conference in Kenya, the UK, France and Brazil.
We want to thank the scientific committee who reviewed all manuscripts included in the proceedings and the co-editors who put this together.

The Special Issue “Advances in On-Farm Agronomic Research and Participatory Learning” of the Agronomy Journal is currently open until April 1st 2025. It is led by ASA President Dr. Peter Kyveryga. This is a great opportunity to bring to light the work that you are doing with farmers and build the scientific literature on on-farm experimentation.

The Second International Forum on Agroecosystem Living Labs will take place in Bordeaux, France, from October 15 to 17, 2025. Building on the success of the first Forum held in Montreal in 2023, this event will bring together the global agroecosystem living lab community to advance research, share insights, and tackle key challenges. Organized by INRAE and AAFC, the Forum will feature scientific sessions, panel discussions, networking events, and field tours, creating an inspiring platform for collaboration and innovation. Call for abstracts is open until March 25th 2025.

Last week the DIFM team hosted two conferences, the Annual DIFM NC1210 Conference was for researchers while the DIFM Extension Conference was more for extentionists. The conference was well attended and generated great confversations around on-farm experimentation. Keep an eye out for next years conference.

At the last International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) in July 2024, we discussed a few points at the OFE-C business meeting. One of which was the desire to foster OFE-C outreach by involving ISPA country reps as ambassadors of OFE in their respective country. We are planning to reach out to continue this conversation with them in the coming weeks and any suggestions for outreach are welcome. We also discussed having a special issue on the topic of On-Farm Experimentation and this has coincidentally happend with the announcement of the Agronomy Journal Special Issue on OFE. Great minds think alike ;0)

We want to recognize Renzo Negrini for his ICPA Graduate Student Award. Renzo is a graduate student from the University of Minnesota and an active member of our OFE community. Congrats!