Renewing Innovation Systems in Agriculture and Food : How to Go Towards More Sustainability?

Intro -- Renewing innovation systems in agriculture and food -- Copyright -- Acknowledgement -- Table of contents -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Reconsidering innovation to address sustainable development -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Innovation for what kind of development? -- 1.3 Research on innovation changes to progressively take into account complexity -- 1.4 New questions, new debates -- References -- Part I. Thinking innovation differently -- Chapter 2. Standards governing agricultural innovation. Where do we come from? Where should we be going? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Standards: building realities -- 2.3 Before agricultural research: the farmer as experimenter -- 2.4 Agricultural research as public good, 1600-1980 -- 2.5 Agricultural research as private good, ca. 1980 - present -- Box 2.1. From commodification to commonization of seeds -- 2.6 Supermarkets, processors, and the standards revolution -- 2.7 The coming storm -- 2.8 Widening the scope of agricultural research -- Box 2.2. Sustaining standards in a complex world: the case of SRI -- Box 2.3. An example of reorientation of agricultural research to benefit small producersin Brazil -- References -- Chapter 3. From concept to emerging practice: what does an innovation system perspective bring to agricultural and rural development? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What is an innovation system and where does the IS concept come from? -- 3.3 Operationalizing the innovation system perspective -- Box 3.1. Stimulating local innovation and farmer-led joint research -- Box 3.2. Papa Andina and the participatory market chain approach -- Box 3.3. Indian national agricultural innovation project -- 3.4 Some key challenges in applying an AIS perspective in practice -- 3.5 Conclusions and perspectives -- References.

Chapter 4. Innovation systems of the future: what sort of entrepreneurs do we need? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Innovation systems: beyond concepts? -- Box 4.1. Examples of entrepreneurship -- 4.3 Alternative sources of disruption: entrepreneurship and development -- 4.4 What lies below the radar? -- 4.5 Conclusions and implications for policy -- 4.6 Practical Implications -- References -- Part II. Addressing new issues -- Chapter 5. Innovating in cropping and farming systems -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Agronomic, economic and social rationales for input-intensive agricultural systems: an example from France -- 5.3 What leeway for changing input-intensive systems? -- 5.4 Tools and approaches for redesigning agricultural systems: some lines of work -- Box 5.1. Dynamics of learning at the farm level: 'step-by-step' design of an agroecological production system in Picardy (adapted from Mischler et al., 2009) -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6. Innovation and social inclusion: how to reduce the vulnerability of rurals? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A review of certain concepts -- Box 6.1. Horticulture and the capability approach in Cameroon -- 6.3 Is agricultural innovation a factor in the reduction of poverty and vulnerability and in the sustainability of development trajectories? -- 6.4 Innovations for reducing rural poverty -- Box 6.2. LAS (Local AgriFood System): a new tool for the development of marginal territories. Lessons from the Rural Agro-Industries Alliance of Selva Lacandona, Chiapas. -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Quality-driven market innovations: social and equity considerations -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Quality driven innovations and implications for small-scale farmers -- 7.3 Mixed evidence on the implications for small-scale farmers of quality developments in the chains.

Box 7.1. Learning to export: building farmer capabilities through partnerships in Kenya -- Box 7.2. Fair trade standards as a means to innovate in the organization of the chain? -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Box 7.3. Social construction of quality standards in organic agrifood and the inclusion of small-scale producers. Insights into the Argentinean case -- References -- Chapter 8. Innovation and governance of rural territories -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Models of regional and territorial development -- 8.3 Policies of development by innovation -- Box 8.1. The localized agrifood systems -- 8.4 What form of governance to help innovation emerge in rural and periurban areas? -- Box 8.2. An example of socio-territorial innovation: the agroecological transition in Brazil. -- Box 8.3. Co-construction of an analytical model and a guide for setting up territorial governance. -- 8.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part III. What implications for policy making and research? -- Chapter 9. Agrobiodiversity : towards inovating legal systems -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Agrobiodiversity: a concept under construction -- 9.3 Agrobiodiversity and food security, nutrition, health, environmental sustainability and climate change adaptation -- 9.4 Agrobiodiversity and legal instruments -- Box 9.1. When farmers in poor communities combine participatory plant breeding andin-situ and ex-situ management. An illustration from Honduras, Central America -- Box 9.2. The role of 'curadoras' in the conservation of quinoa varieties in the Mapuche communities in southern Chile -- Box 9.3. From phytogenetic resource to cultural heritage: the social bases of agrobiodiversity management in Central Amazonia -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10. Policies to foster innovation in the Mediterranean region.

10.1 Context: global and regional challenges for agriculture and food - the innovation imperative -- 10.2 Concepts of innovation and implications for policy, research and action -- 10.3 International frameworks and strategies to foster innovation in science and technology -- Box 10.1. Example of an inter-regional network to foster agricultural innovation: the regional Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) -- Box 10.2. A dual process of learning from an institutional innovation: the case of participatory irrigation management in Morocco -- Box 10.3. Institutional innovations to help adoption of technical innovations for cereal cultivation in Tunisia -- 10.4 National strategies and policies to foster agricultural innovation in the Mediterranean region: Morocco's new 'Green Plan' agricultural strategy -- 10.5 AFD-supported programmes to foster agricultural innovation at the local level in Morocco: incentives, governance and implementation modalities -- 10.6 Implications from the case studies for policies to foster innovation in the Mediterranean region -- 10.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11. Designing innovative agriculture policies in Africa -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Etiology of the poor management of agricultural issues -- 11.3 Training of actors and poor organization -- 11.4 Qualitative transformation of African agriculture -- 11.5 Well trained and informed professional organizations -- 11.6 Establishment of agricultural value chain observatories -- 11.7 Governance of agricultural research -- 11.8 The national agricultural research systems -- 11.9 Regional mechanisms for research coordination -- 11.10 For concerted programming of research priorities -- 11.11 Rethinking the State's role in the agricultural sector.

Box 11.1. Action research in partnership: a process of reconciliation between research and society -- Box 11.2. Innovation platforms enabling innovations in livestock sector in Ethiopia -- 11.12 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12. Conclusion: en route…but which way? -- 12.1 Revisiting traditional paths of innovation -- 12.2 Challenging existing visions of agriculture in order to explore new ones -- 12.3 Engaging transitions to generate change -- 12.4 Innovating is primarily learning through interactions -- 12.5 The researcher, an agent of change? -- About the editors -- About the authors -- Authors of boxes.

Present-day society asks more from agriculture than just the production of food. Agriculture is now required to be concerned with the quality of food, ecosystem services, inclusion of marginalized populations, revitalization of rural territories, energy production, etc. This opening up of the future of agriculture encourages rural actors to experiment with new farming systems, using imagination, creativity and determination to replace dominant models. At the same time, low-cost mass-production systems continue on their way, with promises of a future based on green technologies. In this discussion it is important to consider what kind of sustainable development societies really want. Which innovations will help in achieving these developments? What role can research and public policies play in supporting the emergence of these innovations? This book takes the debate beyond the purely technical options and considers social and institutional innovations as well. It demonstrates that innovation is the result of a confrontation between visions of actors who often have divergent interests. There is no single path towards sustainable development and we must find ways to encourage the emergence and co-existence of different types of agriculture and food systems. The success of transitions will not only depend on our capacity to rethink existing models, but especially on our willingness to embark on a creative learning process from which we will inevitably emerge transformed.

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