Innovation and Development in Agricultural and Food Systems.

• Superior document: Synthèses Series
• Author: Faure, Guy.
• TeilnehmendeR: Chiffoleau, Yuna.; Goulet, édéric.; Temple, Ludovic.; Touzard, Jean-Marc.
• Place / Publishing House: Versailles : : Quae,, 2018.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Synthèses Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table des matiÃr̈es -- Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems -- Introduction - Reviving perspectives on innovation in agriculture and food systems -- Innovating to survive in the contemporary world -- Including agricultural innovation in societal debates -- Analysing innovation as a multidimensional process -- Studying and supporting innovation in agriculture -- Structure of the book -- Bibliography -- Part 1 - Renewing agricultural approaches -- Chapter 1 - A history of innovation and its uses in agriculture -- Chapter 2 - Agricultural and agrifood innovation in the 21st century: maintaining, erasing or reshaping its specificities? -- Chapter 3 - Agricultural research and innovation: a socio-historical analysis -- Part 2 - Forms of innovation in agriculture and the food sector -- Chapter 4 - Agroecological innovation: mobilizing ecological processes in agrosystems -- Chapter 5 - Social innovation through short food supply chains: between networks and individualities -- Chapter 6 - Innovation, a precondition for the sustainability of localized agrifood systems -- Chapter 7 - Territorial innovation in the relationships between agriculture and the city -- Part 3 - Providing support to the actors of innovation -- Chapter 8 - Designing and organizing support for collective innovation in agriculture -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 - Action research in partnership and emancipatory innovation -- Chapter 10 - Co-designing technical and organizational changes in agricultural systems -- Chapter 11 - Advice to farms to facilitate innovation: between supervision and support -- Chapter 12 - The ComMod and Gerdal approaches to accompany multi-actor collectives in facilitating innovation in agroecosystems -- Part 4 - Evaluating the effects of innovations.

Chapter 13 - The abattoir, from the factory to the farm. Ethics and morality in the dynamics of innovation in agrifood systems -- Chapter 14 - Evaluating the impacts of agricultural innovations -- Chapter 15 - Evaluating impacts of innovations: benefits and challenges of a multi-criteria and participatory approach -- Chapter 16 - Simulation tools to understand, evaluate and strengthen innovations on farms -- Afterword - What types of innovation for sustainable agriculture? -- What technological avenues? -- Financial environment -- Biodiversity and the commons -- List of authors.