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Renewing innovation systems in agriculture and food

How to go towards more sustainability?

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Editors:
  1. E. Coudel
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  2. H. Devautour
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  3. C. T. Soulard
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  4. G. Faure
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  5. B. Hubert
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  • Takes the debate beyond the purely technical options and considers social and institutional innovations as well
  • Demonstrates that innovation is the result of a confrontation between visions of actors who often have divergent interests
  • Shows 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

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-16
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    1. Reconsidering innovation to address sustainable development

      • Guy Faure, Emilie Coudel, Christophe T. Soulard, Hubert Devautour
      Pages 17-33

  4. Addressing new issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Innovating in cropping and farming systems

      • Jean-Marc Meynard
      Pages 89-108

    3. Innovation and social inclusion: how to reduce the vulnerability of rurals?

      • Denis Requier-Desjardins
      Pages 109-130

    4. Quality-driven market innovations: social and equity considerations

      • Estelle Biénabe, Cerkia Bramley, Johann Kirsten
      Pages 131-145

    5. Innovation and governance of rural territories

      • André Torre, Frédéric Wallet
      Pages 147-164

  5. What implications for policy making and research?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Agrobiodiversity: towards inovating legal systems

      • Juliana Santilli
      Pages 167-184

    3. Policies to foster innovation in the Mediterranean region

      • Karim Hussein, Khalid El Harizi
      Pages 185-204

    4. Designing innovative agriculture policies in Africa

      • Papa Abdoulaye Seck, Aliou Diagne, Ibrahima Bamba
      Pages 205-220

    5. Conclusion: en route…but which way?

      • Bernard Hubert, Emilie Coudel, Oliver T. Coomes, Christophe T. Soulard, Guy Faure, Hubert Devautour
      Pages 221-230

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 231-240
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Renewing innovation systems in agriculture and food

  • Book Subtitle: How to go towards more sustainability?

  • Editors: E. Coudel, H. Devautour, C. T. Soulard, G. Faure, B. Hubert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-768-4

  • Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers Wageningen

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Wageningen Academic Publishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-8686-768-4Published: 15 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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