Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems

Introduction - Revivingperspectives on innovation in agriculture and food systems

Part 1 - Renewingagricultural approaches           

Chapter1 - A history of innovation and its uses in agriculture     

Chapter2 Agricultural and agrifood innovation in the 21st century: maintaining,erasing or reshaping its specificities?    

Chapter3 - Agricultural research and innovation: a socio-historical analysis       

Part 2 - Forms ofinnovation in agriculture and the food sector    

Chapter4 - Agroecological innovation: mobilizing ecological processes in agrosystems 

Chapter5 - Social innovation through short food supply chains: between networks andindividualities     

Chapter6 - Innovation, a precondition for the sustainability of localized agrifoodsystems            

Chapter7 - Territorial innovation in the relationships between agriculture and thecity    

Part 3- Providing supportto the actors of innovation       

Chapter8 - Designing and organizing support for collective innovation in agriculture

Chapter9 - Action research in partnership and emancipatory innovation

Chapter10 - Co-designing technical and organizational changes in agricultural systems

Chapter11 - Advice to farms to facilitate innovation: between supervision and support  

Chapter12 - The ComMod and Gerdal approaches to accompany multi-actor collectives infacilitating innovation in agroecosystems

Part 4 - Evaluating theeffects of innovations     

Chapter13 - The abattoir, from the factory to the farm. Ethics and morality in thedynamics of innovation in agrifood systems               

Chapter14 - Evaluating the impacts of agricultural innovations 

Chapter15 - Evaluating impacts of innovations: benefits and challenges of amulti-criteria and participatory approach   

Chapter16 - Simulation tools to understand, evaluate and strengthen innovations onfarms          

Afterword- What types of innovation for sustainable agriculture?            

List of authors