Innovation and Development in Agricultural and Food Systems.

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Superior document:Synthèses Series
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Place / Publishing House:Versailles : : Quae,, 2018.
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Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Synthèses Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (345 pages)
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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.