The setting up of 12 workshops related to the management of agroecosystems in Mauritius also contributed to the collective reflection on potential solutions, based on the experience of the growers, the knowledge gained through trainings and the experts’ competence involved in those workshops.

These workshops was done on a quarterly basis and regrouped 5-15 farmers (corporates and smallholders) of the Smart Agriculture network, throughout the phase 2 of the Smart Agriculture project. The collective reflection lead to potential solutions which has been tested by one or several of the workshop participants on a voluntary basis. The Smart Agriculture phase 2 project took the financial responsibility of the small investments linked to the setting up of trials on the field.
The trials was followed and evaluated by the respective farmers. The latter was helped by the animators/facilitators of the network and were regularly supported by the identified experts of each theme.

The below figure gives more precision on the chosen strategy that accompanied the farmers of the Smart Agriculture phase 2 network in the reflection and implementation of a more agro-ecological system culture.