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