This volume is devided into three parts. The first part describes on-going
processes of change within, or aside, the socio-technical regime that we have
inherited from the modernisation and industrialisation process of agriculture,
which took part after the second world-war. The focus in this part is on studies
dealing with the issue of agro-ecological initiatives born in niches of organic
movement, which are questioning the mainstream regime of industrialised
agriculture.
A second part is called « Intervention and Design ». The four chapter in this
part describe how researchers participated in situations of change. These
studies use different approaches and methodologies, but first of all shed light
design, re-design or co-design in change processes in different situations. Trying
to facilitate projects that purposefully address sustainability transitions, these
chapters provide new insights in ways of doing research and producing scientific
knowledge that would not have been possible without such interventionist
research practices.
The final part is called « Innovation with Promise ». It contains four chapters
with case-studies of (socio-technical) innovations that hold a promise to induce a
transition towards a more sustainable agriculture. The emergence of novelties in various domeins of an existing field of practice (the political sphere, the food or
fibre value chains or the more local initiatives) calls for the capacity of collectives
to sustain discourses, scopes and transformative arrangements in long term
strategies. These chapters propose new frameworks and rationales to
understand the discourses, practices and performative promises of sustainability
transitions.
This paper introduces a new research framework for social learning, to be able to derive ways to facilitate social learning. The authors report on an explorative interview study to substantiate the framework. One interesting conclusion was that hidden agenda’s were shown...
This book documents the proof of the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) Concept that was developed by the Forum for Agricultural Research for Development in Africa (FARA). The IAR4D concept forms the basis for the Sub Saharan Africa Challenge...
Technological innovations have driven economic development and improvement in living conditions throughout history. However, the majority of smallholder farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa have seldom adopted or used science‐based technological innovations. Consequently, several scholars have been persistently questioning the effectiveness of...
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security. To achieve...
The Synthesis Document provides a synthesis of concepts and principles of the Common Framework developed under the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP). The objective of the TAP Common Framework is to promote better coherence and greater impact of capacity development in...
