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Innovation for Sustainability
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Research in Rural Sociology and Development
Series Editor: Terry Marsden
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| Volume 8: | Dairy Industry Restructuring |
| Volume 9: | Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life |
| Volume 10: | Nature, Raw Materials and Political Economy |
| Volume 11: | New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development |
| Volume 12: | Between the Local and the Global |
| Volume 13: | Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring |
| Volume 14: | Beyond the Rural–Urban Divide: Cross-Continental Perspectives on the Differentiated Countryside and Its Regulation |
| Volume 15: | Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives |
| Volume 16: | From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research |
| Volume 17: | Globalization and the Time–Space Reorganization: Capital Mobility in Agriculture and Food in the Americas |
| Volume 18: | Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes: Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture |
| Volume 19: | Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms |
| Volume 20: | Labour Relations in Globalized Food |
| Volume 21: | Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns of Convergence and Divergence |
| Volume 22: | Constructing a New Framework for Rural Development |
| Volume 23: | Metropolitan Ruralities |
| Volume 24: | Rural Change and Global Processes |
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Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Volume 25
Innovation for Sustainability: Small Farmers Facing New Challenges in the Evolving Food Systems
Edited by
Gianluca Brunori
University of Pisa, Italy
Stefano Grando
University of Pisa, Italy
United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China
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List of Figures and Tables
Figures
| Introduction | |
| Figure 1 | An Overall View on the Volume |
| Chapter 1 | |
| Figure 1 | Food System Conceptualization |
| Figure 2 | Food Consumption and Food Production Systems Interacting |
| Figure 3 | A Specific Example of a Food System and Its Sub-systems |
| Figure 4 | Flows of Income and Sources of Investment in an Agricultural Smallholding |
| Chapter 3 | |
| Figure 1 | Conceptual Framework of the Food System Approach for Vulnerability Assessment to the Effects of Global Drivers of Change in Food and Nutrition Security Research |
| Figure 2 | Components of the Food System |
| Figure 3 | Different Scales and Levels Critical in Understanding and Responding to Food System Interactions |
| Chapter 4 | |
| Figure 1 | A Model of Vulnerability |
| Figure 2 | TRANSMANGO Framework for Assessing People's Food Vulnerability |
| Figure 3 | Vulnerability Framework |
| Figure 4 | Vulnerability Model for FNS |
| Figure A1 | A Seven-step Food System Vulnerability Assessment Framework |
| Figure A2 | General Form of the Vulnerability Scoping Diagram (VSD) |
| Chapter 5 | |
| Figure 1 | Performance of Local and Global Chains on Attributes Selected for Cross Country Case Study Assessment |
| Chapter 6 | |
| Figure 1 | Producer's Decision-making Process |
| Figure 2 | Multidimensional Framework Guiding SUFISA |
| Figure 3 | External Conditions |
| Figure 4 | Map of Producers' Strategies |
| Figure 5 | Conditions Affecting a Contractual Relation |
| Figure 6 | Understanding Institutional Arrangements |
| Figure 7 | Examples of Institutional Arrangements |
| Figure 8 | Ex Ante and Ex Post Risks in Contractual Arrangements |
| Figure 9 | Conditions, Strategies and Performances |
| Figure 10 | Conditions, Strategies, Performances and Feedbacks |
| Figure 11 | Performances and Resilience Dimensions |
| Chapter 7 | |
| Figure 1 | Innovation as a Learning Process |
| Figure 2 | Components of a Socio-technical System |
| Figure 3 | The Dynamics of Second-order Innovation |
| Chapter 8 | |
| Figure 1 | Innovation Policies and Innovation Paths |
Tables
| Chapter 2 | |
| Table 1 | Small Farms' Contribution to FNS |
| Chapter 3 | |
| Table 1 | Key Categories and Examples of Food System Activities and Actors that Perform Them |
| Table 2 | Key Categories of Public and Private Institutions that Coordinate the Food System Activities Performed by Actors and Uses of Natural and Human-made Assets |
| Chapter 4 | |
| Table 1 | Examples for Each of the Four Categories of Vulnerability Factors Classified According to the Dimensions Sphere and Knowledge Domain |
| Table 2 | Main Drivers of Food Vulnerability |
| Table A1 | Vulnerability Profile of a Household |
| Table A2 | Analysis of the Food System Characteristics that May Indicate Vulnerability |
| Table A3 | TRANSMANGO Matrix for Analysis of Drivers Affecting the Food System |
| Table A4 | Framework Matrix for Vulnerability Assessment |
| Chapter 5 | |
| Table 1 | Sustainability Dimensions and Attributes, as Defined in the GLAMUR Project |
| Chapter 6 | |
| Table 1 | Key Determinants of Global Value Chain Governance |
| Table 2 | Contract Types |
| Chapter 7 | |
| Table 1 | Conventional vs Alternative Paradigms |
| Chapter 8 | |
| Table 1 | A Classification of Policy Goals |
| Table 2 | Classification of Support Schemes According to Type of Paradigm and Type of Objectives |
List of Acronyms
- AHM
Agricultural Household Model
- AKIS
Agriculture Knowledge and Innovation Systems
- CAP
Common Agricultural Policy
- CFS
Community food security
- CSP
Conditions-Strategies-Performances
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- FNS
Food and Nutrition Security
- GMO
Genetically Modified Organism
- HACCP
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
- HLPE
High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- IA
Institutional Arrangements
- ICT
Information and Communications Technologies
- IMF
International Monetary Fund
- MEA
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- MLP
Multilevel Perspective
- OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- RD
Rural Development
- RR
Reference Region
- SCP
Structure-Conduct-Performance
- SES
Socioecological Systems
- STS
Sociotechnical Systems
- UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
- VSD
Vulnerability Scoping Diagram
Foreword
The volume provides an in-depth exploration of the determinants, dynamics and outcomes of rural and agricultural change processes, with a special focus on the role of family farming.
Covering both the system and the farm level of analysis, the book offers a comprehensive view of approaches and models capable to grasp different complementary aspects of the development trajectories followed by farms, food systems and territories facing multidimensional drivers of change and exposed to a range of vulnerability factors. The emerging characters and roles of innovation networks and social learning, as well as the decision-making processes at the farm level are explored in particular depth, with attention to the multidimensional societal expectation from agriculture, family farms and rural areas, with specific attention to food and nutrition security concerns.
The contributions have been first elaborated as conceptual frameworks of some recent EU-level research projects, with the participation of a wide range of contributors with diverse scientific, professional and geographical background. This gives the volume the capability to interpret the plurality of agricultural change and innovation processes taking place in different spatial contexts, with specific attention to the role small farmers can play in these processes.
The original documents have been adapted for this publication in a volume, while retaining their specificity. This background makes each contribution readable as a document in itself as well as in continuation with one another. It also involves a limited degree of overlapping, as some concepts or categories are addressed in more than one chapter. Far from creating redundancy, we believe this gives the reader the opportunity to confront with an issue or a conceptual category through different lenses and from different perspectives, deepening their understanding. The references made from one chapter to another aim at the same objective.
More specifically, the large part of Chapter 1 comes from the framework developed for the project SALSA1; Chapters 2, 3 and 4 (with the related Appendix) are the result of the unpacking of the framework of TRANSMANGO2, with some elements taken form SALSA project outcomes in Chapter 2; Chapter 5 is an exception, as it reproduces with some adaptation a paper already published by the authors3; Chapter 6 comes from the framework of SUFISA4 whereas Chapter 7 (and most of Chapter 8) relies on the work carried out for the framework of INSIGHT.5
Acknowledgements
The editors and the contributors are deeply grateful to all the colleagues that have participated in the activities of the projects whose conceptual frameworks have been adapted for this publication. Any research project, and any outcome of such projects, is a collective endeavour to which each partner and each involved person contribute. Special thanks also to Sophie Barr and Emma Leverton, who helped the editors in the complex work of revision and refinement of the book’s content and editing.
SALSA – Small farms, small food businesses, and sustainable food security. Funded under Horizon 2020, grant agreement n. 677363. http://www.salsa.uevora.pt/en/.
TRANSMANGO – Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security. Funded under the seventh FP, grant agreement n. 613532. http://www.transmango.eu/.
Brunori, G., Galli, F., & Grando, S. (2016). Sustainable agri-food systems: A reflection on assemblages and diversity. Systèmes alimentaires/Food Systems, 1, 21–39. Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2016.
SUFISA – SUstainable FInance for Sustainable Agriculture and fisheries. Funded under Horizon 2020, grant agreement 635577. https://www.sufisa.eu/.
INSIGHT – Strengthening Innovation Processes for Growth and Development. Funded under the sixth FP, contract n. 44510. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/84139/factsheet/en.
