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.