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.
In this book, West African research associates from the CoS-SIS programme describe how they initiated innovation platforms and facilitated the different steps in a CIG cycle. The stories show that the facilitation of innovation platforms is not easy: it requires...
Innovation platforms are groups of individuals or stakeholder representatives with different backgrounds and interests. They come together to diagnose problems, identify opportunities, and find ways to achieve their goals. When innovation platforms are set up by development projects, their processes...
This editorial illustrates the Knowledge Management for Development Journal Special Issue on "Facilitating multi-stakeholder processes: balancing internal dynamics and institutional politics", explaining that it focuses on the connection between the knowledge function in knowledge management for development (KM4D) and the facilitation function within multi stakeholder processes (MSPs)....
El Documento de Síntesis provee una síntesis de los conceptos y principios del Marco Común desarrollado dentro del contexto de la Plataforma de la Agricultura Tropical (TAP, por sus siglas en inglés). El objetivo del Marco Común de la TAP...
Social learning in multi-actor innovation networks is increasingly considered an important precondition for addressing sustainability in regional development contexts. Social learning is seen as a means for enabling stakeholders to take advantage of the diversity in perspectives, interests and values...
