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)

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Innovation is oftenpresented as one of the main catalysts for more sustainable and inclusivedevelopment. In the agricultural and food sectors, innovation is characterizednot only by specificities arising from its relationship to nature, but alsofrom the wide diversity of its stakeholders, ranging from farmers to consumers,and including intermediaries such as the research community and advisoryservices. Innovation emerges from interactions between these actors, whomobilize 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 majordevelopment challenges in its various forms: agroecological innovation, socialinnovation, territorial innovation, etc.

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

This book is intendedfor teachers, professionals, students, and researchers.

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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Language(s): English

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1^st edition

Collection: Synthèses

Published: 19 november 2018

Reference eBook [ePub]: 02678EPB

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759229604

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