Living Territories to Transform the World.

• Superior document: Agricultures et défis du Monde Series
• Author: Caron, Patrick.
• TeilnehmendeR: Valette, Elodie.; Wassenaar, Tom.; d'Eeckenbrugge, Geo Coppens.; Papazian, Vatché.
• Place / Publishing House: Versailles : : Quae,, 2017.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Agricultures et défis du Monde Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The territory and the challenges of sustainable development -- Chapter 1. Why and how the concept of 'territory' can help in thinking rural development -- Chapter 2. Territories and global challenges -- Chapter 3. The territory: a response to the development crisis -- Part 2. Diversity of territorial functions and approaches -- 2-1 - Organizing the territory to manage resources -- Chapter 4. Agro-industries and territorial development: the role of land policies -- Chapter 5. Is the concept of territory miscible in irrigation water? -- Chapter 6. Sustainability of groundwater exploitation in the Mediterranean -- Chapter 7. 'Municípios Verdes': from zero deforestation to the sustainable management of natural resources in the Brazilian Amazon -- Chapter 8. The territory, at the heart of new fish-farming innovations -- 2-2 - Organizing the territory for production -- Chapter 9. Dissemination of improved crop varieties in Africa: how territorial partnerships ensure the success of innovations -- Chapter 10. Creating innovative sectors in a territory for deriving value from biomass: Valosorgho in Occitania, an ongoing project -- Chapter 11. Co-designing cropping systems and territorial planning -- Chapter 12. Modelling the impact of modes of governance on territorial dynamics: the case of the oil palm in Indonesia -- Chapter 13. Transforming the landscape of south-western Ghana: impacts and challenges of the rubber sector -- 2-3 - Organizing the territory for services -- Chapter 14. Geography of health: using territorial constructions to better manage human and animal health -- Chapter 15. Agroecological pest control and landscape organization in the French West Indies -- Chapter 16. Control of invasive species in island territories.

Chapter 17. Analyzing ecosystem services to manage territories -- Chapter 18. Livestock at the heart of 'climate-smart' landscapes in West Africa -- Chapter 19. Urban-rural cohesion in territorial flood management -- 2-4 - Mobilizing the territory as a resource -- Chapter 20. Converging views on multi-sited territories in the southern Altiplano in Bolivia and southern Mozambique -- Chapter 21. Localized agrifood systems -- Chapter 22. Urban and peri-urban recycling of organic matter, an approach based on 'territorial' ecology -- Chapter 23. Diversity of crops, societies and territories -- Chapter 24. Protected areas: opportunities for socio-economic development of territories? -- 2-5 - The territory as a basis for designing public policies -- Chapter 25. Social learning for territorial development -- Chapter 26. Diversity of actors and alliances in processes of territorialization -- Chapter 27. Towards a territorialization of rural policies in Tunisia: the example of water and soil conservation policies -- Chapter 28. The policyscape as a conceptual framework to study the combination of conservation and development policies in the territory: the case of Mexico -- Chapter 29. The challenges of territorial governance: the example of rural Brazil -- Chapter 30. Forest concessions: a transition towards territorial development institutions? -- Part 3. Tools, methods and incentives for territorial development -- Chapter 31. The researcher and the territory: accompanying complexity -- Chapter 32. Assessing the capacity of cropping systems to respond to challenges of sustainable territorial development -- Chapter 33. Monitoring territorial dynamics by remote sensing and spatial modelling -- Chapter 34. Territorial observatories: a tool for development? -- Chapter 35. Requirements, instruments and mechanisms of funding of rural territories.

Chapter 36. French public aid for development: from a centralized aid for the development of chains to support for decentralization -- Chapter 37. Territory-centred thinking and action for a better future: territorial foresight in the regions of Ségou in Mali and Vakinankaratra in Madagascar -- Chapter 38. General conclusion and outlook -- List of text boxes -- List of authors.