I am an education researcher working within an interdisciplinary team composed mainly of natural sciences colleagues. I am a researcher with little experience in the specific topic (precision technology in agriculture) but aiming to contribute to an interdisciplinary conversation by bringing in Afro-Colombian smallholders experiences, knowledge and the challenges they face while farming within a complex context. Lastly, as a Chilean researcher, I am trying to learn from and contribute to Colombia’s smallholder farming debates and research.

From this introduction, I have identified three cross-research complexities that at some point affect/impact my reflections on what would/should be the contribution of this paper: to interdisciplinary research? To specific literature? Shall I also focus on participatory methodologies? Or maybe the relevance of using the capability approach as the main theoretical framework? The covid was also a key factor, as it interrupted fieldwork, interactions and a necessary conversation between the different researchers. In addition, it prevented me from continuing with a specific line of research that I had begun to develop: the experiences of women in the Colombian countryside, based on the particular case of a cooperative created and organized solely by Afro-Colombian women.

Ideally, I would like to write up and develop two writing outcomes: two academics papers (one on the case of Afro-Colombian farmers and one on the interdisciplinary dynamic and potential contributions as a team to PA). Lastly, I would like to consider what a participant told me about the usefulness of texts/docs as research outcomes. “They (stakeholders/practitioners) bring us a lot of documents, but I don’t have time to read them; written docs don’t make sense to me….” So I would also like to create a material that could be transformed into a podcast or incorporated into a local broadcasting program, which farmers listen to a lot, to generate relevant inputs for them.