Introduction - Reviving perspectives on innovation in agriculture and food systems

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

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?

List of authors