Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems

by Guy Faure (editorial coordination), Yuna Chiffoleau (editorial coordination), Frédéric Goulet (editorial coordination), Ludovic Temple (editorial coordination), Jean-Marc Touzard (editorial coordination)
Collection: Synthèses
november 2018
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Summary

Innovation is often presented as one of the main catalysts for more sustainable and inclusive development. In the agricultural and food sectors, innovation is characterized not only by specificities arising from its relationship to nature, but also from the wide diversity of its stakeholders, ranging from farmers to consumers, and including intermediaries such as the research community and advisory services. Innovation emerges from interactions between these actors, who mobilize resources and produce knowledge in collaborative mechanisms in orderto generate changes. It encompasses domains as varied as production practices, market organization, and eating habits. Innovation is closely tied to major development challenges in its various forms: agroecological innovation, social innovation, territorial innovation, etc.

This book casts a look atinnovation in agricultural and food systems. It focuses in particular on supporting innovation, by examining methods and organizations, and on evaluating innovation using different yardsticks. The book is based on reflections and research originating from various scientific disciplines, on fieldwork carried out both in France and in many countries of the Global South, and finally on the experiences gained by accompanying and supporting innovative actors. It combines theoretical contributions on innovation with iconic case studies to illustrate its observations and discussions.

This book is intended for teachers, professionals, students, and researchers.

 

The French version of this book, Innovation et développement dans les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires, is available on our website.

La version française de ce titre, Innovation et développement dans les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires, est disponible sur notre site.

Table of contents

Introduction - Revivingperspectives on innovation in agriculture and food systems

               

Part 1 - Renewingagricultural approaches           

Chapter1 - A history of innovation and its uses in agriculture     

Chapter2 Agricultural and agrifood innovation in the 21st century: maintaining,erasing or reshaping its specificities?    

Chapter3 - Agricultural research and innovation: a socio-historical analysis       

 

Part 2 - Forms ofinnovation in agriculture and the food sector    

Chapter4 - Agroecological innovation: mobilizing ecological processes in agrosystems 

Chapter5 - Social innovation through short food supply chains: between networks andindividualities     

Chapter6 - Innovation, a precondition for the sustainability of localized agrifoodsystems            

Chapter7 - Territorial innovation in the relationships between agriculture and thecity    

Part 3- Providing supportto the actors of innovation       

Chapter8 - Designing and organizing support for collective innovation in agriculture

Chapter9 - Action research in partnership and emancipatory innovation

Chapter10 - Co-designing technical and organizational changes in agricultural systems

Chapter11 - Advice to farms to facilitate innovation: between supervision and support  

Chapter12 - The ComMod and Gerdal approaches to accompany multi-actor collectives infacilitating innovation in agroecosystems

               

Part 4 - Evaluating theeffects of innovations     

Chapter13 - The abattoir, from the factory to the farm. Ethics and morality in thedynamics of innovation in agrifood systems               

Chapter14 - Evaluating the impacts of agricultural innovations 

Chapter15 - Evaluating impacts of innovations: benefits and challenges of amulti-criteria and participatory approach   

Chapter16 - Simulation tools to understand, evaluate and strengthen innovations onfarms          

 

Afterword- What types of innovation for sustainable agriculture?            

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by Julio Catalan on 18/06/2019 04:45

Features

Language(s): English

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1st edition

Collection: Synthèses

Published: 19 november 2018

Reference eBook [ePub]: 02678EPB

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759229604

Interior: Colour

Size: 2.07 MB (ePub)

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