Socio-technical transitions in farming: key concepts.

Darnhofer, I.; Sutherland, Lee‐Ann; Wilson, Geoff A.; Zagata, L.

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“…Accordingly, if stakeholders seek to develop this form of agriculture at the local level, they may have to develop "transition management", i.e. a process of governance that seeks to steer or modulate the dynamics of transitions through interactive and iterative processes among networks of stakeholders (Darnhofer 2015;Foxon 2011;Foxon et al 2009). The challenge is then to manage a "purposive transition", i.e.…”

Section: Challenges Of the Transition To Biodiversity-based Agricultumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…management of the landscape structure to promote beneficial associated diversity (Fig. 1c), requires coordination between stakeholders with different interests and adapted institutions (Brewer and Goodell 2010;Caron et al 2014;Darnhofer 2015;Duru et al 2015). The need to anticipate and manage cascade effects between organisational levels makes these landscape-level practices complex to implement (Duru et al 2015;Galloway et al 2008;Walker and Meyers 2004).…”

Section: Challenges Of the Transition To Biodiversity-based Agricultumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…not planned and managed (Darnhofer 2015;Horlings and Marsden 2011;Kremen and Miles 2012;Levidow et al 2012a, b;Vanloqueren and Baret 2009). Accordingly, if stakeholders seek to develop this form of agriculture at the local level, they may have to develop "transition management", i.e.…”

Section: Challenges Of the Transition To Biodiversity-based Agricultumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To meet the challenge of developing an agroecosystem adapted to and interconnected with the local ecological, socio-economical and institutional systems, the process of innovation must be conducted in a "local agricultural system of innovation" including a network of interacting institutions, businesses and individuals (Klerkx and Leeuwis 2008). This "territorial" implementation of the innovation process is also necessary for it to be legitimate to the social and cultural networks' values and traditions (Caron et al 2014;Darnhofer 2015).…”

Section: Challenges Of the Transition To Biodiversity-based Agricultumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…rules of the social game, such as formal rules (including public policies), informal agreements and ways of doing things that structure human interactions and activity (North 2005in Darnhofer 2015. Fostering biodiversity-based agriculture will require dealing better with the intricacy between agriculture and local socio-economical dynamics (Caron et al 2014;Marsden 2012).…”

Section: Challenges Of the Transition To Biodiversity-based Agricultumentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing agroecological transitions; A review

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Concerns about the negative impacts of productivist agriculture have led to the emergence of two forms of ecological modernisation of agriculture. The first, efficiency-substitution agriculture, aims to improve input use efficiency and to minimise environmental impacts of modern farming systems. It is currently the dominant modernisation pathway. The second, biodiversity-based agriculture, aims to develop ecosystem services provided by biological diversity. It currently exists only as a niche. Here we review challenges of implementing biodiversity-based agriculture: managing, at the local level, a consistent transition within and among farming systems, supply chains and natural resource management. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual frameworks developed to analyse farming, socialecological and socio-technical systems. Then we present an integrative framework tailored for structuring analysis of agriculture from the perspective of developing a territorial biodiversity-based agriculture. In addition, we propose a participatory methodology to design this agroecological transition at the local level. This design methodology was developed to support a multi-stakeholder arena in analysing the current situation, identifying future exogenous changes and designing (1) targeted territorial biodiversity-based agriculture, (2) the pathway of the transition and (3) the required adaptive governance structures and management strategies. We conclude by analysing key challenges of designing such a complex transition, developing multi-actor and multidomain approaches based on a combination of scientific and experiential knowledge and on building suitable boundary objects (computer-based and conceptual models, indicators, etc.) to assess innovative systems designed by stakeholders.

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Food and nutrition security and sustainability transitions in food systems

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Food and Energy Security

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The concepts of food security and food sustainability are two main paradigms in the food system discourse—however, they are often addressed separately in the scientific literature. We argue that this disconnect hinders a coherent discussion of sustainability transitions, which will be necessary to solve problems (environmental, social, economic, and health) generated by conventional food systems. Our review highlights linkages between sustainability transitions and food and nutrition security using the perspective of sustainable food systems. We explore the diversity of food security narratives and food sustainability paradigms in the agro‐food arena, analyze relations between food security and food systems sustainability, and suggest options to foster a transition toward sustainable food systems. It is widely acknowledged that food systems sustainability must entail long‐term food and nutrition security in its availability, access, utilization, and stability dimensions. For food systems to deliver food and nutrition security for present and future generations, all their components need to be sustainable, resilient, and efficient. These linkages between food sustainability and food and nutrition security intersect at global, national, local, and household levels. Different strategies can be pursued to foster sustainability transitions in food systems: efficiency increase (e.g., sustainable intensification), demand restraint (e.g., sustainable diets), and food systems transformation (e.g., alternative food systems). Creating sustainable food systems requires moving from an agriculture‐centered to a food system policy and research framework. This will be fundamental to foster the complex and holistic transformation necessary to achieve sustainable food systems, which is, in turn, a prerequisite to achieving sustainable food and nutrition security.

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Disrupting Design: A Multi‐level Technological Transition Study of Dribbble.com

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Hemsley

Kelly

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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As social media continues to integrate into people’s everyday lives, it provides a space for people to present their work and connect with others. This study seeks to understand how Dribbble.com, a site created in 2009 for visual designers to showcase their work, plays a role in the transformation of the visual design industry and design education. We use sociotechnical transitions theory to interpret 30 semi‐structured interviews with active Dribbble users. We find that the niche site Dribbble, along with the constellation of sites around it, are changing design regimes (the ways work gets done). Our Dribbble users report that the site changes how they develop and maintain their skills, find inspiration to solve design problems, keep up with trends, network with peers, produce and promote their portfolios and find jobs. However, the site also presents some challenges. For example, our interviewees indicate that they no longer receive constructive feedback on the platform. These emerging regimes are competing with, and coexisting with, existing design regimes. Our work contributes to social media studies by looking at under‐studied niche sites, like Dribbble, and how sites in the design space may be impacting the wider society.

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Socio-technical transitions in farming: key concepts.

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Designing agroecological transitions; A review

Designing agroecological transitions; A review

Food and nutrition security and sustainability transitions in food systems

Disrupting Design: A Multi‐level Technological Transition Study of Dribbble.com

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