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.
This book contains a collection of papers that discuss the experience of an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) capacity building program in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The program was the AusAID-funded Agricultural Research and Development Support Facility (ARDSF), which ran...
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